Category Archives: Spine

Section Editor: Nancy Epstein, MD

Pedicled multifidus muscle flaps to treat dural tears due to penetrating spinal stab wounds: Two case reports and a literature review

  •  Domenico Policicchio, Riccardo Boccaletti, Gina Casu, Anna Mingozzi, Giampiero Muggianu, Giovanni Nodari, Walter Marco Sias, Giosué Dipellegrini 

January 19, 2024, 10:41

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Image Report

Subfascial drains are safe and effective in preventing postoperative cerebrospinal fluid leaks after intradural spine tumor surgery

  •  Julie Mayeku, Esteban Quiceno, Christina Cannata, Giovanni Barbagli, Amna Hussein, Nikhil Dholaria, Michael Prim, Ali A. Baaj 

January 12, 2024, 9:11

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Original Article

Anterior cervical surgery for morbidly obese patients should be performed in-hospitals

  •  Nancy E. Epstein, Marc A. Agulnick 

January 8, 2024, 14:03

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Review Article

Pseudogout mimicking cervical spine osteomyelitis and ventral epidural abscess: A case report and literature review

  •  Brandon Michael Wilkinson, Dan Y. Draytsel, Fakhri B. Awawdeh, Ali Hazama 

January 8, 2024, 13:59

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report

Metastatic renal cell carcinoma of the lumbar spine with long posterior instrumented fusion and repetitive dislodgement of the set screws of the S2 alar-iliac screw

  •  Shinsuke Yoshida, Shunpei Iida, Rei Akagawa, Soichi Oya, Kazuo Saita, Satoshi Ogihara 

December 22, 2023, 8:19

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report

Trends in lumbar interbody fusion: A study of American Board of Orthopedic Surgery (ABOS) candidate data

  •  Sean Childs, Wajeeh Bakhsh, Caroline Thirukumaran, Sanford Emery, Paul Rubery, Addisu Mesfin 

December 15, 2023, 12:31

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Original Article

Late intrathecal retraction of a lumboperitoneal shunt

  •  Young Ju Kim, Atsushi Fujita, Masahiro Maeyama, Tatsuo Hori, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Takashi Sasayama 

December 8, 2023, 10:41

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report

Functional and radiological outcomes following craniovertebral junction surgery

  •  Tushar N. Rathod, Sachin Mohana Khemkar, Tapas Mohanty, Arjit Vashishtha, Arun Kale, Akshay Phupate 

November 10, 2023, 10:49

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Original Article

A rare case of full recovery following delayed presentation of paraplegia secondary to thoracic epidural abscess: A case report and review of the literature

  •  Oluwaseyi Adebola, Nitin Adsul, Debasish Pal 

November 3, 2023, 11:03

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report

Chondrosarcoma secondary to hereditary multiple osteochondromas with spinal cord compression: A case report and systematic review

  •  José Elmano Silva, Gabriel de Almeida Monteiro, Stefanie Torres e Silva, Gabriel Marinheiro dos Santos Bezerra, Joaquim Francisco Cavalcante-Neto, Diego de Aragão Bezerra, Janssen Loiola Melo Vasconcelos, Paulo Roberto Lacerda Leal 

November 3, 2023, 11:01

Category:

  • Spine

Article Type:

  • Case Report