Category Archives: Spine

Section Editor: Nancy Epstein, MD

A perspective on wrong level, wrong side, and wrong site spine surgery
  •  Nancy Epstein 

June 15, 2021, 13:05

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Review Article

Spontaneous thoracolumbar epidural hematoma in an apixaban anticoagulated patient
  •  Andreas Theofanopoulos, Petros Zampakis, Eleftheria Antoniadou, Dimitrios Papadakos, Dionysia Fermeli, Constantine Constantoyannis, Lambros Messinis, Vasileios Panagiotopoulos 

June 7, 2021, 14:29

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report

Increase of the clivus-canal angle in patients with basilar invagination, without atlantoaxial displacement, treated with a simple maneuver of indirect decompression of the odontoid with the head clamp, during posterior occipitocervical arthrodesis
  •  Claudio Henrique F. Vidal, Ricardo Brandao Fonseca, Bruno Leimig, Walter F. Matias-Filho, Geraldo Sa Carneiro-Filho 

June 7, 2021, 14:23

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Original Article

A case of postoperative tubercular spondylitis following microdiscectomy for lumbar disc herniation
  •  Umesh Takhelmayum, Namjubou Daimai, Kanchana Laishram, Nikhil Juneja, M. L. Yogananda, Deepa Longjam 

June 7, 2021, 13:46

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report

Difficulty differentiating between a posterior extradural lumbar tumor versus sequestered disc even with gadolinum-enhanced MRI
  •  Maurizio Passanisi, Gianluca Scalia, Paolo Palmisciano, Daniele Franceschini, Antonio Crea, Crescenzo Capone, Maria Grazia Tranchina, Giovanni Federico Nicoletti, Salvatore Cicero, Giuseppe Emmanuele Umana 

June 7, 2021, 13:43

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report

Review of best classification systems for diagnosing and treating thoracolumbar spine trauma
  •  Alecio Cristino Evangelista Santos Barcelos, Franz Jooji Onishi, Andrei Fernandes Joaquim, Ricardo Vieira Botelho 

May 31, 2021, 12:23

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Review Article

Misdiagnosis of “White Cord Syndrome” following posterior cervical surgery for ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: A case report
  •  Shankar Acharya, Deepak Kaucha, Arashpreet Singh Sandhu, Nitin Adsul, R. S. Chahal, K. L. Kalra 

May 31, 2021, 12:20

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report

T11/T12 ossification of the yellow ligament contributing to thoracic myelopathy in patient with posterior fossa arachnoid cyst and acquired incidental Chiari I malformation/syrinx
  •  Toshiya Aono, Hideaki Ono, Takeo Tanishima, Akira Tamura, Isamu Saito 

May 31, 2021, 12:17

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report

Utility of the spinal instability neoplastic score to identify patients with Gorham-Stout disease requiring spine surgery
  •  Chloe Gui, Brett Rocos, Laura-Nanna Lohkamp, Angela Cheung, Robert Bleakney, Eric Massicotte 

May 17, 2021, 12:11

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report

Pericranial and scalp rotation flaps for occipitocervical hardware exposure with CSF leak in rheumatoid arthritis patient: A case report and review of the literature
  •  Claudio Schonauer, Ciro Mastantuoni, Oreste de Divitiis, Francesco D’Andrea, Raffaele de Falco, Fabrizio Schonauer 

May 17, 2021, 12:08

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report