Spine August 2008 Meeting Abstracts: 34th Annual Meeting Abstracts

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CLINICAL STUDY OF THE LOW BACK PAIN AND RADICULAR PAIN PATHWAYS EMPLOYING L2 SPINAL NERVE ROOT INFILTRATION: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL
Yasuaki Murata; Kazuhisa Miyamoto; Tatsuo Morinaga; Eiji Hanaoka
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OUTCOMES BASED ON A LOW BACK PAIN CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Greg McIntosh; Hamilton Hall
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THE IMPACT OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION ON OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS WITH A LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION: TWO-YEAR RESULTS FROM THE SPINE PATIENT OUTCOMES RESEARCH TRIAL (SPORT)
Steven Atlas; Emily Blood; Jeffrey Ashburner
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THE EMERGENCE OF INTERNET BASED COLLABORATION IN SURGICAL DECISION MAKING
Paul Slosar; James Youssef
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THE PREDICTION FACTORS ON PLAIN MRI ABOUT THE PROGNOSIS OF LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION
Masumi Iwabuchi; Kazuya Murakami; Fumihiro Ara
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ROUTINE DYNAMIC IMAGING FOR EVALUATING DEGENERATIVE LUMBAR STENOSIS: INCIDENCE OF DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS MISSED ON SUPINE MRI.
Rick Davis
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INCIDENCE OF LUMBAR SPONDYLOLSIS AMONG JAPANESE POPULATION BASED ON 3-DIMENSIONAL CT ANALYSIS FROM 1000 SUBJECTS.
Toshinori Sakai; Koichi Sairyo; Shoichiro Takao
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BIOMECHANICAL EVALUATION OF THE SEGMENTAL INSTABILITY IN LUMBAR DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS
Kazuhiro Hasegawa; Ko Kitahara; Ko Takano; Haruka Shimoda; Toshiaki Hara
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SPORT: RADIOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS OF CLINICAL OUTCOMES FOLLOWING OPERATIVE OR NON-OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS
Adam Pearson; Jon Lurie; Emily Blood; Heike Braeutigam; Howard An; Federico Girardi
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SPORT SPINAL STENOSIS VERSUS DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS: COMPARISON OF BASELINE CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOMES
Adam Pearson; Emily Blood; Jon Lurie; Tor Tosteson
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WEIGHT LOSS IN OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE PATIENTS FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL LUMBAR DECOMPRESSION
Ryan Garcia; Patrick Messerschmitt; Christopher Furey; Henry Bohlman
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COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING LUMBAR STENOSIS SURGERY IN OLDER ADULTS CAN BE PREDICTED BY A CO-MORBID CONDITIONS SCORE
Sergio Mendoza-Lattes; Diane Tran; Matthew Teusink; Barbara Farrell
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NOVEL MICROANATOMICAL FINDINGS WHICH EXPLAIN THE PATHOGENESIS AND CLINICAL FEATURES OF INTRASPINAL SYNOVIAL CYSTS
Martin Wilby; Robert Fraser; Barrie Vernon-Roberts
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THE MEANING LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
Matias Alfonso; Pablo Diaz De Rada
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FACTORS PREDICTIVE OF PSEUDOARTHROSIS FOLLOWING OSTEOPOROTIC VERTEBRAL FRACTURE- A PROSPECTIVE MULTICENTER STUDY
Hiroaki Nakamura; Terai Hidetomi; Tadao Tsujio; Masatoshi Hoshino; Akinobu Suzuki; Akira Matsumura
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BALOON KYPHOPLASTY IN THE TREATMENT OF HIGH VELOCITY VERTEBRAL WEDGE COMPRESSION FRACTURES: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMISED TRIAL
Anand Agarwal; Alan Hammer
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OUTCOME OF VERTEBROPLASTY USING CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CEMENT FOR OSTEOPOROTIC VERTEBRAL FRACTURES WITH MIDDLE COLUMN DESTRUCTION –COMPARISON BETWEEN VARTEBROPLASTY AND CONSERVATIVE THERAPY-
Masato Nakano; Norikazu Hirano; Yusuke Fujita; Shigeharu Nogami
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SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF OSTEOPOROTIC COMPRESSION FRACTURES WITH ALLOGRAFT
Karl D. Schultz, Jr
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LONG-TERM (11 YEAR) FOLLOW-UP OF POSTERIOR SPINAL FUSION FOR ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS: AN EVALUATION OF THE RATE OF UNINSTRUMENTED LUMBAR DISC DEGENERATION UTILIZING LONG TERM POST-OP MRI
Oheneba Boachie-Adjei; Thomas Lawhorne; Daniel Green; Douglas Mintz; Bernard Rawlins; Stephen Burke
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HOW EFFECTIVE IS AN ALL SCREW CONSTRUCT IN REDUCING THE RIB HUMP IN IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS
Atiq Durrani
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TREATMENT OF THORACIC SCOLIOSIS: ARE MONOAXIAL THORACIC PEDICLE SCREWS THE BEST FORM OF FIXATION FOR CORRECTION?
Baron Lonner; Joshua Auerbach; Oheneba Boachie-Adjei; Sukan Shah; Naobumu Hosgane
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DEGENERATIVE LUMBAR SCOLIOSIS TREATED WITH POSTERIOR FUSION WITH TLIF OR ALIF: COMPLICATIONS, CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHIC OUTCOMES
Dennis Crandall; Jan Revella
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TRANSFORAMINAL LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION (TLIF) IN REVISION SURGERY FOR ADULT LUMBAR AND THORACOLUMBAR SCOLIOSIS: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
Ibrahim Obeid; Nicolas Aurouer; Anouar Bourgli
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ANALYSIS OF SAGITTAL ALIGNMENT CORRECTION IN ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS USING THREE DIFFERENT OSTEOTOMY TECHNIQUES
H V Dabke; S M H Mehdian
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SCORE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SCOLIOSIS RESEARCH SOCIETY-22 QUESTIONNAIRE IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS
Douglas Hedden; James Mahood; Marc Moreau; Douglas Hill; Edmond Lou
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPINAL DEFORMITIES FOLLOWING OPEN HEART SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
Jose Herrera-Soto
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SPINAL HEMIEPIPHYSIODESIS CORRELATES WITH STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO VERTEBRAL GROWTH PLATES AND DISC CONSISTENT WITH ASYMMETRIC COMPRESSION
Eric Wall; Donita Bylski-Austrow; David Glos; Edgar Ballard; Andrea Montgomery
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FACTORS PREDICTING GOOD OUTCOME IN SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF SPONDYLODISCITIS
jean Ouellet; Peter Jarzem
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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF REACTIONS WITH THE USE OF BMP IN POSTERIOR INTERBODY FUSIONS
Jorge E Isaza; Stephen A Guillory
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COSMETIC AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES FOLLOWING PARAMEDIAN AND LATERAL RETROPERITONEAL APPROACHES IN ANTERIOR LUMBAR SPINE SURGERY
Jay Jagannathan; Ekawut Chankaew; John Kern; Jeffrey Elias; Mark Shaffrey; Vincent Arlet
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POST CONTRAST FINDINGS IN LOW FIELD MRI AS PREDICTORS OF CLINICAL OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH SCIATICA TREATED CONSERVATIVELY
Tue Secher Jensen; Hanne B. Albert; Joan Solgaard Sorensen; Claus Manniche
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THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE IN SPINAL SURGERY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Christopher Bono; Michael Glotzbecker; Mithcel Harris; Greory Brick; Robert Heary
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DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF COMPARATIVE LATERAL SUPINE- AND SITTING-POSITION X RAYS IN FRESH OSTEOPOROTIC VERTEBRAL FRACTURE
Satoshi Kawaguchi; Keiko Horigome; Hideki Yajima
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ARE ROUTINE RADIOGRAPHS NEEDED IN THE FIRST YEAR AFTER LUMBAR SPINAL FUSIONS?
John Glaser
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SURGICAL RESULTS FOR DISCOGENIC LOW BACK PAIN RANDOMIZED STUDY USING DISCOGRAPHY VS. DISCOBLOCK
Seiji Ohtori; Tomoaki Kinoshita; Shinichiro Nakamura; Takana Koshi; Kazuyo Yamauchi; Masatsune Yamagata
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COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF SURGERY FOR DEGNERATIVE SPONSYLOLISTHESIS: TWO-YEAR SPINE PATIENT OUTCOMES RESEARCH TRIAL (SPORT) RESULTS
Anna Tosteson; Tor Tosteson; Jon Lurie; Harry Herkowitz; Scott Boden; Gunnar Andersson
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COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF SURGERY FOR SPINAL STENOSIS OVER 2-YEARS IN THE SPINE PATIENT OUTCOMES RESEARCH TRIAL (SPORT)
Anna Tosteson; Tor Tosteson; Jon Lurie; Michael Longley; Todd Albert; Keith Bridwell
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COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF SURGERY FOR A LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION IN PATIENTS WITH WORKERS’ COMPENSATION: RESULTS FROM THE SPINE PATIENT OUTCOMES RESEARCH TRIAL (SPORT)
Steven Atlas; Anna Tosteson; Tor Tosteson; Emily Blood; Glenn Pransky
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ANALYSIS OF REIMBURSEMENT DECISIONS: THE EXAMPLE OF LUMBAR DISC ARTHROPLASTY
David Wong; Anant Kumar; Sanjay Jatana; Gary Ghiselli; Scott Bainbridge; Deno Pappas
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COST-UTILITY ANALYSIS OF PROLONGED CONSERVATIVE CARE VERSUS EARLY SURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH SCIATICA CAUSED BY LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION
Wilco C. Peul; Wilbert van den Hout
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EXPENDITURES AND HEALTH STATUS AMONG ADULTS WITH SPINE PROBLEMS: THE MEDICAL EXPENDITURE PANEL SURVEY
Sohail Mirza; Brook Martin; Richard Deyo; Judith Turner; Bryan Comstock; Sean Sullivan
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LOW BACK PAIN IN JAPANESE ADULTS -A POPULATION BASED STUDY-
Shin-ichi Konno; Shun-ichi Fukuhara; Miho Sekiguchi
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A PROSPECTIVE, MULTI-CENTERED VALIDATION STUDY EXAMINING THE CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF A PATIENT’S SELF-REPORTED HISTORY FOLLOWING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT (MVA) JUDGED AGAINST AN AUDIT OF THEIR RECORDS
Eugene Carragee
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MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN COMBINATIONS IN ADOLESCENTS
Juha Auvinen; Tuija Tammelin; Simo Taimela; Paavo Zitting
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BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF FOUR MODERN LUMBOSACRAL FIXATION TECHNIQUES
Melvin Helgeson; Anton Dmitriev; Ronald Lehman; Andrew Mack
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MUSCULAR RECOVERY OF IN VIVO LUMBAR SPINE STIFFNESS FOLLOWING LIGAMENTOUS INJURY IN AN OVINE MODEL
Christopher Colloca; Tony Keller; Robert Gunzburg; Robert Moore; Deed Harrison
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DOES PROXIMAL FACET VIOLATION WITH INTRAPEDICULAR INSTRUMENTATION DESTABILIZE THE ADJACENT LEVEL? AN IN-VITRO HUMAN CADAVERIC ASSESSMENT.
Anton Dmitriev; Mario Cardoso; Melvin Helgeson; Timothy Kuklo; Michael Rosner
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LONG TERM DYNAMIC COMPRESSION OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC CAUSES REMODELING IN VIVO
Karin Wuertz; Karolyn Godburn; Ana Barbir; Peter Roughley; Mauro Alini
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EFFECTS OF PEROXYNITRITE ON INTERVERTEBRAL DISC CELLS
Karin Wuertz; Lucy Poveda; Michael Hottiger
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MATRIX METALOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR PROTECTS FROM NEUROINFLAMMATION AND PAIN
Hideo Kobayashi; Sharmila Chattopadhayay; Jennifer Dolkas; Shin-ichi Kikuchi; Robert Myers
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IS KERATIN-19 A RELIABLE PHENOTYPE MARKER FOR HUMAN NUCLEUS PULPOSUS CELLS?
Sibylle Grad
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TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-â3 STIMULATES PROTEOGLYCAN AND COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS UNDER LOW OXYGEN TENSION BY BOVINE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC CELLS IN ALGINATE BEADS
Yumiko Abe; Kunihiro Asanuma; Hitoshi Tonomura; Tomoatsu Kimura
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GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY OF DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE (DDD)
Y-P Kao; D Chan; K Cheung; D Ho; J Karppinem; J Leong; K Lik; S-P Yip; K Cheah; Y-Q Song; P.C Sham
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A DIRECT COMPARISON OF RHOP-1 AND RHBMP-2 IN A RHESUS MONKEY POSTEROLATERAL ENVIRONMENT
Sigurd Berven; Stephen Ondra; Jeffrey Toth; Youjeong Kim; John Luis-Ogbo; Maneesh Bawa
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A NOVEL ACCELERATED AGING MURINE MODEL EXHIBITING SEVERE PROTEOGLYCAN DEFICIENCY IN THE NUCLEUS PULPOSUS
Vo Nam; Hyoung-Yeon Seo; Rebecca Studer; Gwen Sowa; Laura Neidernhofer; Kevin Bell; James Kang
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LIVE CELL IMAGING OF NOTOCHORDAL CELLS FROM THE RABBIT NUCLEUS PULPOSUS DEMONSTRATING DIFFERENTIATION AND INTERACTION WITH CHONDROCYTIC CELLS
Joo Han Kim; Gwendolyn Sowa; Bridget Deasy; Nam Vo; Rebecca Studer; James Kang; Helga Georgescu
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THE EFFECT OF PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD (PEMF) AND BMP-2 ON INTERVERTEBRAL DISC CELLS
Jin Hwan Kim; Sangwook &NA;; Tim Yoon; Yerun Zhu; Zili Wang; Takahiko Hamasaki; Bruce J Simon
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TRANSIENT SHORT TERM LOCAL BONE REMODELING EFFECTS OF HIGH-DOSES OF RHBMP-2 IN A NOVEL PRECLINICAL INTERBODY SPINE FUSION MODEL
Vikas Patel; Hyun Bae; Ben Pradhan; Jeffrey Toth; Jeffrey Badura; Howard Seim, III; A Simon
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PET AND MRI FOR MOITORING INTERBODY FUSION WITH EQUINE BONE PROTEIN EXTRACT, RHBMP-2 AND AUTOGRAFT
Casper Foldager; Michael Bendtsen; Xuenong Zou; Aage Kristian Olsen; Ole Lajord Munk; Hans Stoedkilde-Joergensen; Cody Bünger
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THE INFLUENCE OF PREOPERATIVE BACK PAIN ON THE OUTCOME OF LUMBAR DECOMPRESSION SURGERY. A PROSPECTIVE STUDY
Frank S Kleinstück; Anne F Mannion; Friederike Lattig; Viktor Bartanusz; Dezsoe Jeszenszky; Francois Porchet
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OUTCOMES FOR DIFFERENT SURGICAL APPROACHES TO DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS IN SPORT
William Abdu; Kevin Spratt; Jon Lurie; Tor Tosteson; Anna N.A. Tosteson; James Weinstein
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A PROSPECTIVE, COHORT STUDY OF TWO LUMBAR FUSION TECHNIQUES
Dieter Grob; Friederike Lattig; Frank Kleinstück; Viktor Bartanusz; Dezsoe Jeszenszky
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CRITICAL LENGTH OF FUSION WHICH NEED ILIOSACRAL FIXATION IN INSTRUMENTED FUSION OF DEGENERATIVE LUMBAR DISEASE
Chong Suh Lee; Sung Soo Chung; Sung Woo Choi; Je Wook Yu
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ATTEMPTED PERCUTANEOUS RUPTURE OF LUMBAR SYNOVIAL CYSTS: A CASE SERIES OF 102 PATIENTS
Carolyn Schwartz; Julia Martha; Bryan Swaim; David Wang; James Hill; Rita Bode; David Kim
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TIMING OF SURGERY FOR SCIATICA; 2-YEAR RESULTS OF A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Wilco C. Peul; Bart Koes
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A RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF BALLOON KYPHOPLASTY AND NONSURGICAL CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH ACUTE VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURES
Douglas Wardlaw; Leonard Bastian; Jan Van Meirhaeghe; Jonas Ranstam; Steve Cummings
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SINGLE-LEVEL INSTRUMENTED POSTEROLATERAL FUSION OF LUMBAR SPINE WITH Â-TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE VERSUS AUTOGRAFT: A PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED STUDY WITH 3-YEAR FOLLOW-UP
Li-Yang Dai; Lei-Sheng Jiang
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LUMBAR PLEXUS NERVE ROOT POSITION WITHIN THE PSOAS MUSCLE: AN ANATOMIC STUDY
Martin Quirno; Carl Paulino; Jeffrey Spivak
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EFFECT OF ADVERSE EVENTS ON CLINICAL OUTCOME: ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM A PROSPECTIVE TRIAL
Donna Ohnmeiss; Bill Bodemer; Jack Zigler
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A MINIMAL 10 YEARS FOLLOW-UP OF OSTEOPLASTIC HEMI-LAMINECTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH LUMBAR FORAMINAL DISC HERNIATION
Tomoaki Toyone; Tomoyuki Ozawa; Kunitada Inada; Koya Kamikawa; Atsuya Watanabe; Tadashi Tanaka; Yuichi Wada
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A COMPARISON OF â-TCP+BMA VS. RHBMP-2 IN ANTERIOR LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION: A PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED TRIAL WITH ONE AND TWO YEAR CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHIC OUTCOMES
Jeffrey McConnell; Charis Mitchell
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GRAFTON AND LOCAL BONE HAS COMPARABLE OUTCOMES TO ILIAC CREST BONE IN SINGLE LEVEL INSTRUMENTED LUMBAR FUSIONS: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED STUDY
James Kang; Howard An; Tim Yoon; Julie Generelli; Alan Hilibrand; Eoin Kavanagh; Scott Boden
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CERVICAL MYELOPATHY DUE TO PSEUDOGOUT: CASE REPORT
Alvaro Silva; Bernardo Merello; José Antonio Riera; Carlos Thibaut; Manuel Valencia
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CORONAL CLEFT OF A LUMBAR VERTEBRA: A RARE CAUSE OF BACK PAIN WITH DIFFICULT DIAGNOSIS
Carlos Villas; Juan Eduardo Mönckeberg; Matias Alfonso
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ARNOLD NEURALGIA CAUSED BY SUPERLASTIC CERVICAL LYMPH NODE
Carlos Villas; Matias Alfonso; Alvaro Silva; Javier Del Rio; Julio Duart
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SURGICAL EVALUATION AND 26 YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH THE CLOWARD OPERATIVE TECHNIQUE
Rafael Parra
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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR C 1 / C 2 FIXATION IN CHILDREN
German Ochoa
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SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS WITH POSTERIOR INSTRUMENTATION, LOCAL BONE GRAFT, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE AND AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW
Hani Mhaidli; Tito Fernandez; Arturo Montesdeoca; Jose Augusto
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HEMIVERTEBRA RESECTION FOR CONGENITAL SCOLIOSIS
Ignacio Dockendorff; Alvaro Silva
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HOW DO PATIENTS WITH SCOLIOSIS MAKE THE FIRST APPROACH TO THEIR DIAGNOSIS, IN CHILE?
Rodrigo Gonzalez G
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REGIONAL KYPHOSIS RESTORATION AFTER SPINAL THORACIC AND LUMBAR FRACTURES: EARLY RESULTS
Pierre Pries; Nicolas Salas
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POTENTIAL IMPACT OF DYNAMIC STABILIZATION ON DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS BASED ON IMAGING FINDINGS.
Federico Girardi; Thomas Lawhorne; Frank Cammisa
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LONG TERM RETROSPECTIVE PATIENT OUTCOME EVALUATION AFTER DYNAMIC STABILIZATION WITHOUT FUSION FOR DEGENERATIVE LUMBAR INSTABILITY
Jacques Benezech
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NEW CLASSIFICATION OF LATERAL LUMBER HERNIATION
Osamu Tono; Ko Ikuta; Masayoshi Oga
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EVALUATION OF THE ARTHRODESIS TECHNIQUE OF SPINE IN PAIN LUMBAR PATHOLOGY. SPINE SURGERY UNIT, I.V.S.S.
Gustavo Adolfo Pirela; Pablo Jose Bustamante Ynfante; Elio Antonio Romero Quintini; Omar Jose Robles Villavicencio; Maria Gabriela Morales Pirela
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LUMBAR SPINE SURGERY USING DIAM® INTERESPINOUS DEVICE: CLINICAL, TECHNICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF 30 PATIENTS
Alvaro Silva; Carlos Thibaut; Bernardo Merello; José Antonio Riera; Manuel Valencia
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OPEN VERTEBROPLASTY: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR THE TREATMENT OF SPINAL METASTASES
German Ochoa
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VIDEO ASSISTED LUMBAR DISCECTOMY VIA METREX APPROACH: TECHNICAL AND CLINICAL EVALUATION OF 200 PATIENTS
Carlos Thibaut; Alvaro Silva; Bernardo Merello; JoséAntonio Riera
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A NOVEL LATERAL PERCUTANEOUS INTERSPINOUS SYSTEM FOR THE TREATMENT OF LUMBAR STENOSIS: EARLY CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL RESULTS UP TO ONE YEAR FOLLOW UP
Luiz Pimenta; Carlos Arias Pesantez; Juliano Lhamby; Leonardo Oliveira
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MINIMALLY INVASIVE LUMBAR SPINAL FUSION USING XTUBE® APPROACH AND SEXTANT® DEVICES: TECHNICAL EVALUATION AND PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL RESULTS
Alvaro Silva; Carlos Thibaut; Manuel Valencia; José Antonio Riera; Bernardo Merello
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COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID (CSF) LEAKS IN NON-INSTRUMENTED OPEN VERSUS MINIMAL ACCESS SURGICAL TECHNIQUE (MAST)
Kelly McIntosh, PA-C; Norbert Roosen; Henry Ford
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INTERBODY FUSION BY ANTERIOR APPROACH IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM LOMBO-RADICULALGIA
Cédric Barrey; Pietro Montagna; Karim Mosbah; Hélène Belliard P. Wertheimer
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SHORT TERM CLINICAL RESULTS OF AN ELASTOMERIC LUMBAR DISC PROSTHESIS (PHYSIO-L)
Luiz Pimenta; Carlos Arias Pesantez; Juliano Lhamby; Leonardo Oliveira; Thomas Schaffa; Etevaldo Coutinho
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ARTICULAR CYST CAUSED BY PSUDOGOUT, A RARE CASEOF SCIATICA
Carlos Villas; Matias Alfonso; Alvaro Silva; Juan Pons
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GLOBAL TREATMENT FOR SINE SURGERY
Iñaki Arrotegui; jose luis llombart
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TWO LEVELS PRESACRAL AXIAL LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION (AXIALIF). A PROSPECTIVE 18 MONTHS FOLLOW UP: CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL RESULTS
Luiz Pimenta; Carlos Arias Pesantez; Leonardo Oliveira; Juliano Lhamby; Thomas Schaffa; Etevaldo Coutinho
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OUTCOMES OF EN BLOC RESECTION OF NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCC) INVADING THE THORACIC INLET (TI) AND INTERVERTEBRAL FORAMINA (IF)
Charles Court; Elie Fadel; César Mansour; Gilles Missenard; Philippe Dartevelle Bicetre
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POST-SURGICAL EFFECTS OF SMOKING ON PATIENTS AFTER CIRCUMFERENTIAL ANTERIOR LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION
John Thalgott; Madilyne Fogarty; Tara Sutherland; Kyle Malone
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LESSONS COMING FROM THE SYSTEMATIC USE OF WATER-SOLUBLE NON IONIC DYE DURING INJECTIONS TO THE LUMBAR SPINE
German Ochoa
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TENSEGRITY RECOVERY OF FUNCTIONAL LUMBAR UNIT WITH PROSTHETIC DISC NUCLEUS
Felix Pino
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RISK FACTORS FOR LUMBAR DISC DEGENERATION: AN MRI ANALYSIS OF 130 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS
Masahiro Kanayama; Daisuke Togawa; Tomoya Terai; Tomoyuki Hashimoto; Keiichi Shigenobu; Fumihiro Oha; Ken Nagahama Hakodate
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END PLATE DAMAGE SCORE AND CORRELATION TO DISC DEGENERATION
S Rajasekaran; K Venkatadass; J Naresh Babu; K Ganesh; Ajoy Prasad Shetty
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THE EFFECT OF DISC DEGENERATION ON THE LUMBAR SEGMENTAL AXIAL MOTION IN ASYMPTOMATIC AND CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN SUBJECTS
Nozomu Inoue; Ruth S. Ochia; Alejandro A. Espinoza Orías; Gunnar B.J. Andersson; Howard S. An Rush
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AGE-RELATED DISC DEGENERATION: THE INFLUENCE OF AGE AND PATHOLOGY ON CELL POPULATIONS IN THE L4–5 DISC
Robert Moore; Barrie Vernon-Roberts; Robert Fraser
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LINKAGE ANALYSIS WITH SUBSEQUENT FINE-MAPPING ON FAMILIAL EARLY-ONSET DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE
Daniel WH Ho; Kenneth MC Cheung; Danny Chan; Kathryn SE Cheah; Jaro Karppinen; PC Sham; YQ Song
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DISC SIGNAL IS ASSOCIATED WITH POLYMORPHISMS IN AGC1, COL1A1, COL2A1, COL5A1, COL9A1, COL9A2, IL1A, IL18R1 AND IL18RAP GENES
Tapio Videman; Janna Saarela; Jaakko Kaprio; Annu Näkki; Levälahti Esko; Leena Peltonen; Michele Battié
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POLYMORPHIC VARIATION OF THE GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE 1 GENE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR LUMBAR DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE
David Kim; Julia Martha; Mitchell Max; Inga Peter; Inna Belfer; Robert Banco; Carolyn Schwartz
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IS THE ANULAR TEAR STIMULATED DURING LUMBAR PROVOCATIVE DISCOGRAPHY THE SOURCE OF LUMBAR PAIN DURING FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES?
Michael DePalma; Lane Peterson; William Carne; Dave Cifu
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DEGENERATIVE CHANGES OF INTERVERTEBRAL DISC AND VERTEBRAL ENDPLATE IN ADAMTS5 (AGGRECANASE-2) KNOCKOUT MICE
Jun Chen; Lawrence M Boyd; Kyle D Allen; Melissa Tsuboyama; Liufang Jing; Anne-Marie Malfait; Lori A Setton
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EFFECTS OF COMPRESSION ON GENE EXPRESSION IN NUCLEUS PULPOSUS CELLS
Gwendolyn Sowa; Andrew Zorn; Paulo Coelho; Rebecca Studer; Kevin Bell; Patrick Smolinski; James Kang
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION AND BIOMECHANICAL FUNCTION: EFFECTS OF ANNULAR INJURY SIZE
Hyunchul Kim; David Ryan; David Hwang; Adam Hsieh
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EARLY STAGES OF INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION DO NOT NECESSARILY CAUSE INSTABILITY
Hans-Joachim Wilke; Friederike Rohlmann; Christina Ring; Claudia Mack; Annette Kettler
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PROXIMAL JUNCTIONAL KYPHOSIS AFTER POSTERIOR DEKYPHOSIS SURGERY FOR THORACOLUMBAR OSTEOPOROTIC VERTEBRAL COLLAPSE
Hironari Takaishi; Morio Matsumoto; Masaya Nakamura; Ken Ishii; Takashi Tsuji; Yoshiaki Toyama; Kazuhiro Chiba Keio
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A VALIDATED FORMULA FOR PREDICTING POST-OPERATIVE SAGITTAL BALANCE IN THE SETTING OF ADULT SPINAL DEFORMITY
Virginie Lafage; Frank Schwab; Ashish Patel; Nicola Hawkinson; Jean-Pierre Farcy
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T1 TILT MAY OUTPERFORM THE PLUMBLINE IN CLINICAL CORRELATION - PELVIC TILT INDICATES PELVIC COMPENSATION TO DEFORMITY
Virginie Lafage; Frank Schwab; Ashish Patel; Nicola Hawkinson; Jean-Pierre Farcy
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CULTURED HUMAN INTERVERTEBRAL DISC CELLS FROM DISCOGENIC LOW BACK PAIN PATIENTS PROMOTE AXONAL OUTGROWTH OF SENSORY NERVE FIBERS IN VITRO
Kazuyo Yamauchi; Seiji Ohtori; Takana Koshi; Masaomi Yamashita; Munetaka Suzuki; Sumihisa Orita; Kazuhisa Takahashi
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ADIPOSE-DERIVED REGENERATIVE CELL TRANSPLANTATION: EVALUATING INTERVERTEBRAL DISC REPAIR IN A CANINE MODEL
H J. Meisel; Timothy Ganey; William Hutton; Ronda Schreiber; M H. Hedrick
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STRUCTURED CO-CULTURE OF STEM CELLS AND DISC CELLS ENHANCES MATRIX SYNTHESIS
Aliza Apple; Zorica Buser; Anne J Kim; Richard Schneider; Jeffrey Lotz
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RNA INTERFERENCE IN NUCLEUS PULPOSUS IN VIVO MEDIATED BY ULTRASOUND GENE THERAPY TECHNIQUE
Teppei Suzuki; Kotaro Nishida; Kenichiro Kakutani; Koichiro Maeno; Takatoshi Shimomura; Minoru Doita; Masahiro Kurosaka Kobe
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PROTEOGLYCAN AND COLLAGEN DIFFERENTIALLY REGULATE ENDOTHELIAL AND NEURAL CELL MIGRATION: RELEVANCE TO TISSUE ENGINEERING OF OSTEOCHONDRAL TISSUES
Irena Mazakova; Sally Roberts; William Eustace; Basil Johnson; Robert Jones; Agnes Hunt
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HUMAN NUCLEUS PULPOSUS CELLS RESPOND TO IL-6: INDEPENDENT EFFECTS AND ACTIONS SYNERGISTIC WITH OTHER CYTOKINES
Rebecca Studer; Gwen Sowa; Helga Georgescu; Nam Vo; James Kang
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Bmp-2 TGF Beta 1 AND AGE ARE REGULATORS OF CARTILAGE INTERMEDIATE LAYER PROTEIN (CILP) GENE EXPRESSION IN THEINTERVERTEBRAL DISC
T Yoon; Z Wang; W Hutton
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LOADING AFFECTS OXYGEN DIFFUSIVITY AND HENCE NUTRIENT TRANSPORT INTO THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC
Thijs Grünhagen; Peter Winlove; Jill Urban
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HEALING PROCESS OF THE DELAYED UNION OF VERTEBRAL FRACTURES IN SENILE OSTEOPOROSIS
Urayama Shigeki
125
AN EVALUATION OF INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET OF A NEW DEVICE: THE LUMBAR ARTIFICIAL DISC REPLACEMENT
Garcia Ryan; Messerschmitt Patrick
126
SHARED AND DIFFERENTIAL GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS BY DISC LEVEL AND DEGENERATION PHENOTYPE
Battié Michelle; Levälahti Esko; Videman Tapio; Gill Kevin; Kaprio Jaakko
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IN VIVO MEASUREMENT OF LUMBAR FACET JOINT AREA IN ASYMPTOMATIC AND CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN SUBJECTS
Yoshihisa Otsuka, An; Howard S. Ochia; Ruth S; Espinoza Orías; Alejandro A. Andersson; Gunnar B.J. Nozomu; Inoue Rush
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TREATMENT OF LOW BACK PAIN: A RANDOMIZED TRIAL COMPARING GROUP-BASED MULTIDISCIPLINARY REHABILITATION AND INTENSIVE INDIVIDUAL THERAPIST-ASSISTED BACK MUSCLE STRENGTHENING EXECISE.
Dufour Ninna; Thamborg Gorm; Oefeldt Alex; Lundsgaard Charlotte; Stender Steen
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HOW DOES SURGERY AFFECT SEXUAL DESIRE AND ACTIVITIES IN PATIENTS WITH LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION?
Kanayama Masahiro; Omata Junichi; Horio Michiko; Yamaguchi Ai; Togawa Daisuke; Hashimoto Tomoyuki
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SHOULD DIFFERENT PERSONALITY GROUPS BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY FOR LOW BACK PAIN?
Bendix Tom; Sorensen Pia Havn; Manniche Claus; Indahl Aage
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THE EFFECT OF TREATMENT EXPECTATION ON OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH INTERVERTEBRAL DISC HERNIATION
Lurie Jon; Berven Sigurd; Blood Emily; Tosteson Anna; Spratt Kevin; Tosteson Tor; Weinstein James
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AN EARLIER VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURE PREDICTS SEVERE LASTING PAIN AND DISABILITY AFTER A SUBSEQUENT ONE
Suzuki Nobuyuki; Ogikubo Osamu; Hansson Tommy