Spine December 2008 Vol 33 Iss 25

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Basic Science
2683-2690
ISSLS Prize Winner: Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Monitoring Interbody Fusion With Equine Bone Protein Extract, Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2, and Autograft
Casper Foldager, BMSc; Michael Bendtsen, MD; Xuenong Zou, MD, PhD; Lijin Zou et al
2691-2701
ISSLS Prize Winner: Integrating Theoretical and Experimental Methods for Functional Tissue Engineering of the Annulus Fibrosus
Nandan L. Nerurkar, MS; Robert L. Mauck, PhD; Dawn M. Elliott, PhD
2702-2710
ISSLS Prize Winner: Microstructure and Mechanical Disruption of the Lumbar Disc Annulus: Part I: A Microscopic Investigation of the Translamellar Bridging Network
Meredith L. Schollum, BE; Peter A. Robertson, MD; Neil D. Broom, PhD
2711-2720
ISSLS Prize Winner: Microstructure and Mechanical Disruption of the Lumbar Disc Annulus: Part II: How the Annulus Fails Under Hydrostatic Pressure
Samuel P. Veres, BEng; Peter A. Robertson, MD; Neil D. Broom, PhD
2721-2727
Effects of Static Compression With Different Loading Magnitudes and Durations on the Intervertebral Disc: An In Vivo Rat-Tail Study
Alon Lai, PhD; Daniel H. K. Chow, PhD; Sammy W. Siu, MPhil; S S. Leung et al
Biomechanics
2728-2740
The Effect of Cement Augmentation and Extension of Posterior Instrumentation on Stabilization and Adjacent Level Effects in the Elderly Spine
Juay-Seng Tan, PhD; Sandeep Singh, MD; Qing-An Zhu, PhD; Marcel F. Dvorak, MD, FRCSC; Charles G. Fisher, MD, MHSc, FRCSC; Thomas R. Oxland, PhD, PEng
2741-2748
Interaction Between Finite Helical Axes and Facet Joint Forces Under Combined Loading
Hendrik Schmidt, PhD; Frank Heuer, MSc; Hans-Joachim Wilke, PhD
Clinical Case Series
2749-2753
Spinal Disabilities in Military and Civil Aviators
Narinder Taneja, MD
2754-2758
Lamina Horizontalization and Facet Tropism as the Risk Factors for Adjacent Segment Degeneration After PLIF
Shinya Okuda, MD; Takenori Oda, MD; Akira Miyauchi, MD; Satoru Tamura et al
Diagnostics
2759-2766
Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial: Radiographic Predictors of Clinical Outcomes After Operative or Nonoperative Treatment of Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
Adam M. Pearson, MD, MS; Jon D. Lurie, MD, MS; Emily A. Blood et al
Epidemiology
2767-2773
The Natural History of Age-Related Disc Degeneration: The Influence of Age and Pathology on Cell Populations in the L4–L5 Disc
Barrie Vernon-Roberts, AO, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FRCPA; Robert J. Moore et al
2774-2780
Identifying Mechanisms for Therapeutic Intervention in Chordoma: c-Met Oncoprotein
Elena Ostroumov, PhD; Christopher J. Hunter, PhD
2781-2788
Age- and Pathology-Specific Measures of Disc Degeneration
Tapio Videman, MD, PhD; Laura E. Gibbons, PhD; Michele C. Battié, PhD
Health Services Research
2789-2800
Surgical Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disc Herniation: Four-Year Results for the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT)
James N. Weinstein, DO, MS; Jon D. Lurie; Tor D. Tosteson; Anna N. A. Tosteson et al
2801-2808
Genetic and Environmental Effects on Disc Degeneration by Phenotype and Spinal Level: A Multivariate Twin Study
Michele C. Battié, PhD; Tapio Videman, MD, DrMedSc; Esko Levälahti et al
Occupational Health/Ergonomics
2809-2818
ISSLS Prize Winner: Early Predictors of Chronic Work Disability: A Prospective, Population-Based Study of Workers With Back Injuries
Judith A. Turner, PhD; Gary Franklin, MD, MPH; Deborah Fulton-Kehoe et al
Surgery
2819-2830
Utility of Spine Surgery: A Comparison of Common Elective Orthopaedic Surgical Procedures
Tommy Hansson, MD, PhD; Elisabeth Hansson, PhD; Henrik Malchau, MD, PhD
Spine Update
2831-2836
Criticisms of the Biopsychosocial Model in Spine Care: Creating and Then Attacking a Straw Person
Robert J. Gatchel, PhD, ABPP; Dennis C. Turk, PhD
Letters
2837
Letters
Charles H. Rivard, MD, FRCS(C), FAAOS, FACS
2837-2838
Letters
M S. Wong, PhD
2838
Letters
Jean-Yves Maigne, MD
2838-2839
Letters
J David Cassidy, DC, PhD, DrMedSc; Pierre Côté, DC, PhD; Eleanor Boyle et al
2839-2840
Letters
Gamal Baroud, PhD; Marc Bohner, PhD; Kieran Murphy et al
2840-2841
Letters
Markus Rudolf Weisskopf, MD; Jörg A. Ohnsorge, MD; Fritz U. Niethard, MD
Cervical Spine
E942-E949
Undetected Vertebral Artery Groove and Foramen Violations During C1 Lateral Mass and C2 Pedicle Screw Placement
Jin S. Yeom, MD; Jacob M. Buchowski, MD, MS; Kun-Woo Park et al
E950-E956
Benign Adverse Events Following Chiropractic Care for Neck Pain Are Associated With Worse Short-term Outcomes but Not Worse Outcomes at Three Months
Sidney M. Rubinstein, DC, PhD; Dirk L. Knol, PhD; Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde et al
Diagnostics
E957-E961
Does the Morphology of Foramen Transversarium Fractures Predict Vertebral Artery Injuries?
Matthew E. Oetgen, MD; Brandon D. Lawrence, MD; James J. Yue, MD
Imaging
E962-E967
Burned-Out Discs Stop Hurting: Fact or Fiction?
Tom Bendix, MD; Per Kjaer, PT, PhD; Lars Korsholm, PhD
Case Report
E968-E970
Osteoblastoma of the Spine With Discordant Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography Imaging Features in a Child
Sanjay D. Chakrapani, MD; Kathryn Grim; Vassil Kaimaktchiev, MD; James C. Anderson, MD
Online Article Abstracts
A13-A14
Online Article Abstracts
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