European Spine Journal

Design concepts in lumbar total disc arthroplasty

Fabio Galbusera, Chiara M. Bellini, Thomas Zweig, Stephen Ferguson, Manuela T. Raimondi, Claudio Lamartina, Marco Brayda-Bruno, Maurizio Fornari

Surgical approach to cervical spondylotic myelopathy on the basis of radiological patterns of compression: prospective analysis of 129 cases

Mihir R. Bapat, Kshitij Chaudhary, Amit Sharma, Vinod Laheri

Percutaneous cervical nucleoplasty in the treatment of cervical disc herniation

Jian Li, Deng-lu Yan, Zai-Heng Zhang

Reviewer’s comment concerning “Percutaneous cervical nucleoplasty treatment in the cervical disc herniation” (Jian Li et al. MS-no: ESJO-D-08-00079R2)

H. Michael Mayer

Aprotinin in pediatric neuromuscular scoliosis surgery

Stepan Kasimian, David L. Skaggs, Wudbhav N. Sankar, Joseph Farlo, Mashallah Goodarzi, Vernon T. Tolo

Improved accuracy in Risser sign grading with lateral spinal radiography

Tomasz Kotwicki

Accuracy and safety of pedicle screw placement in neuromuscular scoliosis with free-hand technique

Hitesh N. Modi, Seung Woo Suh, Harry Fernandez, Jae Hyuk Yang, Hae-Ryong Song

The sagittal balance of the spine in children and adolescents with osteogenesis imperfecta

Karimane Abelin, Raphaël Vialle, Thibault Lenoir, Camille Thévenin-Lemoine, Jean-Paul Damsin, Véronique Forin

Grading of degenerative disk disease and functional impairment: imaging versus patho-anatomical findings

Ulrich Quint, Hans-Joachim Wilke

Peridural scar and its relation to clinical outcome: a randomised study on surgically treated lumbar disc herniation patients

Katarina Rönnberg, B. Lind, B. Zoega, G. Gadeholt-Göthlin, K. Halldin, M. Gellerstedt, H. Brisby

Back and hip extensor muscles fatigue in healthy subjects: task-dependency effect of two variants of the Sorensen test

Annick Champagne, Martin Descarreaux, Danik Lafond

Does socioeconomic status in adolescence predict low back pain in adulthood? A repeated cross-sectional study of 4,771 Danish adolescents

Lise Hestbaek, Lars Korsholm, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik

Posterior lumbar interbody fusion using rhBMP-2

Hans Jörg Meisel, Mark Schnöring, Christian Hohaus, Yvonne Minkus, Andre Beier, Timothy Ganey, Ulrich Mansmann

A less invasive surgical approach in the lumbar lateral recess stenosis: direct approach to the medial wall of the pedicle

Ahmet Çolak, Kıvanç Topuz, Murat Kutlay, Serdar Kaya, Hakan Şimşek, Ahmet Çetinkal, Mehmet N. Demircan

Effectiveness of a mucolythic agent as a local adjuvant in revision lumbar spine surgery

Vincenzo Denaro, Alberto Di Martino, Umile Giuseppe Longo, Vincenzo Costa, Rocco Papalia, Francisco Forriol, Luca Denaro

Biomechanical comparison of two different concepts for stand alone anterior lumbar interbody fusion

Philipp Schleicher, R. Gerlach, B. Schär, C. M. J. Cain, W. Achatz, R. Pflugmacher, N. P. Haas, F. Kandziora

Modic changes: “Age, si quid agis”

João Luiz Pinheiro Franco

Reply to the letter to the editor of João Luiz Pinheiro Franco

Per Kjaer, Tom Bendix, Tue Secher Jensen, Lars Korsholm, Joan Solgaard Sorensen, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde

Response to reply to the letter to the editor concerning “Gebauer et al.: Subdental synchondrosis and anatomy of the axis in aging: a histomorphometric study on 30 autopsy cases. Eur Spine J 15(3):292–298, 2006”: The basis of the dens axis. Where is it located?

Xiao-ping Wang, Zhi-cheng Deng, Zhen-jiao Liang, Yu-min Tu

The development of the axis vertebra: the key to a topographic classification of dens fractures

Matthias Gebauer, Michael Amling

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