European Spine Journal

Novel 3D printable PEEK-HA-Mg2SiO4 composite material for spine implants: biocompatibility and imaging compatibility assessments

• Original Article

Naresh Kumar, Sridharan Alathur Ramakrishnan, Keith Gerard Lopez, Niyou Wang, Balamurugan A. Vellayappan, James Thomas Patrick Decourcy Hallinan, Jerry Ying Hsi Fuh, A. Senthil Kumar

The relationship between frailty and spinal alignment in the elderly general population: a two-year longitudinal study

• Original Article

Shin Oe, Yu Yamato, Tomohiko Hasegawa, Go Yoshida, Tomohiro Banno, Hideyuki Arima, Koichiro Ide, Tomohiro Yamada, Kenta Kurosu, Keiichi Nakai, Haruo Niwa, Yukihiro Matsuyama

Software-assisted preoperative planning of S1 Alar Iliac screws: a 3D morphometric and anatomical study

• Original Article

Payman Vahedi, Ghazal Shabakhsh, Faeze Monji

A prospective randomised controlled trial evaluating prophylactic Floseal, a gelatin and thrombin-based haemostatic matrix, in postoperative drain output and blood transfusion in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion surgery

• Original Article

Eugene Pak-Lin Ng, Kam-Lung Tung, Siu-Leung Yip, Michael Siu-Hei Tse, Tik-Koon Kwok, Kam-Kwong Wong

Comparison of coagulation profile and thromboembolic events among patients undergoing spinal surgery before and after COVID-19 pandemic

• Original Article

Mohammadreza Chehrassan, Mohammadreza Shakeri, Alireza Akbarzadeh Arab, Mahboobe Mozaffary, Elmira Niazi, Hasan Ghandhari

Risk factors of hip joint structural changes following pedicle subtraction osteotomy for ankylosing spondylitis-related thoracolumbar kyphosis: a minimum two-year observation

• Original Article

Yao Li, Bang-ping Qian, Yong Qiu, Yang Yu, Bin Wang

Predictors of poor outcome following lumbar spinal fusion surgery: a prospective observational study to derive two clinical prediction rules using British Spine Registry data

• Original Article

Alison B. Rushton, Feroz Jadhakhan, Martin L. Verra, Andrew Emms, Nicola R. Heneghan, Deborah Falla, Michael Reddington, Ashley A. Cole, Paul C. Willems, Lorin Benneker, David Selvey, Michael Hutton, Martijn W. Heymans, J. Bart Staal

Risk factors for postoperative sympathetic chain dysfunction following oblique lateral lumbar interbody fusion: a multivariate analysis

• Original Article

Long Zhao, Wei Hou, Huagang Shi, Wenbin Jiang, Min Cao, Dun Wan

Preoperative cross-sectional area of psoas muscle correlates with short-term functional outcomes after posterior lumbar surgery

• Original Article

Hikari Urakawa, Kosuke Sato, Avani S. Vaishnav, Ryan Lee, Chirag Chaudhary, Jung Kee Mok, Sohrab Virk, Evan Sheha, Yoshihiro Katsuura, Takashi Kaito, Catherine Himo Gang, Sheeraz A. Qureshi

Risk of further surgery after decompression in patients with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis extending to the lumbar segments: focus on the number of residual lumbar/lumbosacral and sacroiliac mobile segments

• Original Article

Atsushi Tanaka, Takayoshi Shimizu, Toshiyuki Kawai, Shunsuke Fujibayashi, Koichi Murata, Shuichi Matsuda, Bungo Otsuki

Influence of the preoperative L5S1 disc state on lateral L2 to L5 fusion’s outcomes at an average follow-up of 3,5 years (minimum 2 years)

• Original Article

P. Lavantes, A. Poignard, J. Delambre, S. Queinnec, T. Dufour, R. Arvieu, J. Allain

The association between vertebral endplate defects, subchondral bone marrow changes, and lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration: a retrospective, 3-year longitudinal study

• Original Article

Manuel Moser, Dominik Adl Amini, Leonardo Albertini Sanchez, Lisa Oezel, Henryk Haffer, Maximilian Muellner, Jiaqi Zhu, John A. Carrino, Jennifer Shue, Andrew A. Sama, Frank P. Cammisa, Federico P. Girardi, Alexander P. Hughes

Ultrashort time-to-echo MR morphology of cartilaginous endplate correlates with disc degeneration in the lumbar spine

• Original Article

Tim Finkenstaedt, Palanan Siriwananrangsun, Koichi Masuda, Graeme M. Bydder, Karen C. Chen, Won C. Bae

Raftlin and 8-iso-prostaglandin F2α levels and gene network analysis in patients with Modic changes

• Original Article

İlter Demirhan, Erkan Oner, Zafer Yuksel, Murvet Yuksel, Ergul Belge Kurutas

The effectiveness and safety of annulus closure device implantation in lumbar discectomy for patients with lumbar disc herniation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Original Article

Wei-Shang Li, Gao-Yu Li, Qi Yan, Wen-Ting Chen, Lin Cong

Clinical and radiographic features of adult calcified thoracic disc herniation: a retrospective analysis of 31 cases

• Original Article

Lei Yuan, Zhongqiang Chen, Zhongjun Liu, Weishi Li, Chuiguo Sun, Xiaoguang Liu

Effect of K‑line on posterior cervical surgery versus anterior cervical surgery in patients with multi-level ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament

• Original Article

Jingwei Liu, Jianqiang Wang, Zihao Ding, Yong Hai, Yiqi Zhang, Nan Kang, Qiang Wang

Description of age-related changes in cervical sagittal alignment based on pelvic incidence classification in asymptomatic Chinese population

• Original Article

Zheng Wang, Xinli Hu, Peng Cui, Xu Liu, Weiguo Zhu, Chao Kong, Wei Wang, Shibao Lu

Characteristics of cervical intervertebral disc signal intensity: an analysis of T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in 5843 asymptomatic Chinese subjects

• Original Article

Xinhua Liu, Lixia Jin, Chang Jiang, Xiaoxing Jiang, Zixian Chen, Yuanwu Cao

What does degeneration at the cervicothoracic junction tell us? A kinematic MRI study of 93 individuals

• Original Article

Michael S. Kim, Zachary D. Gilbert, Zabi Bajouri, Sagar Telang, Zoe Fresquez, Trevor A. Pickering, Seung Min Son, R. Kiran Alluri, Jeffrey C. Wang, Zorica Buser

The neuro-protective role of telomerase via TERT/TERF-2 in the acute phase of spinal cord injury

• Original Article

Dong-Gune Chang, Jang-Woon Kim, Hong Jin Kim, Young-Hoon Kim, Sang-Il Kim, Kee-Yong Ha

Efficacy of the magnetic stimulation of sacral nerve roots combined with Tui-na on neurogenic bladder after spinal cord injury: preliminary short-term results

• Original Article

Lin Chen, Yunbo Li

Outcomes of different zero-profile spacers in the treatment of two-level cervical degenerative disk disease

• Original Article

Xu Xiong, Jia-Ming Liu, Wei-Wen Chen, Zi-Hao Liu, Rong-Ping Zhou, Jiang-Wei Chen, Zhi-Li Liu

Clinical management and prognosis of spinal myxopapillary ependymoma: a single-institution cohort of 72 patients

• Original Article

Yao-Wu Zhang, Bo Wang, Song-Yuan An, Wei-Hao Liu, Chong Wang, Hao Yan, Yu-Lun Xu, Yong-Zhi Wang, Wen-Qing Jia

More help than harm: surgery for metastatic spinal cord compression is associated with more favorable overall survival within a propensity score analysis

• Open Access
• Original Article

Lukas Leitner, Gerhard Bratschitsch, Anna Kostwein, Patrick Sadoghi, Maria Smolle, Andreas Leithner, Florian Posch

Quantile regression-based prediction of intraoperative blood loss in patients with spinal metastases: model development and validation

• Original Article

Jikai Li, Jingyu Zhang, Xiaozhao Zhang, Dengxing Lun, Ruifeng Li, Rongxing Ma, Yongcheng Hu

Intraoperative cell-salvaged autologous blood transfusion is safe in metastatic spine tumour surgery: early outcomes of prospective clinical study

• Original Article

Naresh Kumar, Joel Yong Hao Tan, Zhaojin Chen, Nivetha Ravikumar, Helena Milavec, Jiong Hao Tan

An improved total en bloc spondylectomy for L5 vertebral giant cell tumor through a single-stage posterior approach

• Original Article

Wei Wan, Wei Zheng, Jiongxi Wan, Jie Zhang, Yujie Liu, Qi Jia, Nanzhe Zhong, Jian Zhao, Minglei Yang, Xinghai Yang, Jianru Xiao

Predicting 30-day mortality after surgery for metastatic disease of the spine: the H2-FAILS score

• Original Article

Farah N. Musharbash, Jawad M. Khalifeh, Micheal Raad, Varun Puvanesarajah, Sang H. Lee, Brian J. Neuman, Khaled M. Kebaish

Efficacy of perioperative gabapentin use in patients with idiopathic scoliosis undergoing fusion surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Review Article

Jose Luis Bas, Paloma Bas, Fernando Bonilla, Gonzalo Mariscal, Silvia Pérez, Miquel Bovea-Marco, Pedro Antonio Rubio-Belmar, Teresa Bas

Ten-year trends in surgical management of 1207 congenital scoliosis

• Original Article

Guanfeng Lin, You Du, Shengru Wang, Yang Yang, Xiaohan Ye, Yiwei Zhao, Weijie Yu, Zhiyi Li, Sen Zhao, Nan Wu, Qianyu Zhuang, Jianxiong Shen, Jianguo Zhang

Clinical differences in preoperative symptoms and surgical outcomes between early and late-teen patients with Lenke type 5C adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

• Original Article

Tomohiro Banno, Yu Yamato, Hiroki Oba, Tetsuro Ohba, Tomohiko Hasegawa, Go Yoshida, Hideyuki Arima, Shin Oe, Koichiro Ide, Tomohiro Yamada, Jun Takahashi, Hirotaka Haro, Yukihiro Matsuyama

Spontaneous induced bone fusion in minimally invasive fusionless bipolar fixation in neuromuscular scoliosis: a computed tomography analysis

• Original Article

M. Gaume, T. Langlais, K. Loiselet, S. Pannier, W. Skalli, C. Vergari, L. Miladi

Clinical and radiographic evolution of graduate patients treated with magnetically controlled growing rods: results of a French multicentre study of 90 patients

• Original Article

Nicolas Mainard, Elie Saghbini, Tristan Langlais, Jean-Damien Metaizeau, Elie Choufani, Vincent Cunin, Richard Gouron, Pierre Journeau, Brice Ilharreborde, Yan Lefevre, Raphael Vialle, Damien Fron, Federico Canavese

Influence of the thoracolumbar junction flexibility on the risk of adding-on after posterior vertebral arthrodesis for thoracic idiopathic adolescent scoliosis

• Original Article

Emilie Andre, Benoit De Courtivron, François Bergerault, Kariman Abelin-Genevois, Thierry Odent

The influence of osteoporotic vertebral fractures on global sagittal alignment in elderly patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Review Article

Elie Najjar, Dritan Pasku, Ali Mardashti, Mustafa Meshneb, Spyridon Komaitis, Khalid M. Salem, Nasir A. Quraishi

Characteristics of MRI‑based vertebral bone quality scores in elderly patients with vertebral fragility fractures

• Original Article

Wenshuai Li, Houze Zhu, Junchuan Liu, Hongsen Tian, Jia Li, Linfeng Wang

Comparison of clinical effects of percutaneous vertebroplasty with two different puncture approaches on the treatment of thoracolumbar osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with narrow pedicles: a retrospective controlled study

• Open Access
• Original Article

Xiaolei Liu, Jiwei Tian, Xiao Yu, Zhongyi Sun, Haibin Wang

Neurogenic intermittent claudication caused by vasculitis in the cauda equina: an autopsy case report

• Case Report

Takashi Ando, Hazuki Watanabe, Yuichi Riku, Mari Yoshida, Yoji Goto, Ryota Ando, Masahiko Fujino, Masafumi Ito, Haruki Koike, Masahisa Katsuno, Yasushi Iwasaki

Patient-specific 3D printing to replace components of a rib-to pelvis “Eiffel Tower” vertebral expanding prosthetic titanium rib system in an infant: a case report

• Case Report

Martin Li, Bashar Alhani, Matthew Newton-Ede, David Marks, Morgan Jones

Atlas invagination through the foramen magnum: expanding the spectrum of craniovertebral junction malformations

• Case Report

Alberto Benato, Martina Offi, Federico Bianchi, Massimiliano Visocchi, Gianpiero Tamburrini

Letter to the Editor concerning “T1 pelvic angle is associated with rapid progression of hip arthrosis” by Nakamura K, et al. (Eur Spine J [2023] https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-023–07580-0)

• Letter to the Editor

Yuta Yamada, Tadatsugu Morimoto, Hirohito Hirata, Masaaki Mawatari

Answer to the Letter to the Editor of Y. Yamada, et al. concerning “T1 pelvic angle is associated with rapid progression of hip arthrosis” by Nakamura K et al. (Eur Spine J [2023]: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-023-07580-0)

• Author's Reply

Kaito Nakamura, Yoshinori Okamoto, Hitoshi Wakama, Junya Matsuyama, Takashi Ishitani, Shuhei Otsuki, Masashi Neo

Letter to the Editor concerning “A novel radiological classification for displaced os coccyx: the Benditz–König classification” by König MA, Grifka J, Benditz A [Eur Spine J; 31, (2022): 10–17]

• Letter to the Editor

Nur Hürsoy, Kemal Panç

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