Table of Contents

January 01, 2011; Volume 5,Issue 4

Lumbar arthroplasty

Open Access
Preclinical and clinical experience with a viscoelastic total disc replacement
Burkhard Rischke, Raymond S. Ross, Boris A. Jollenbeck, Kari B. Zimmers and Neal D. Defibaugh

International Journal of Spine Surgery January 2011, 5 (4) 97-107; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esas.2011.08.001

Full Length Article

Open Access
Kineflex lumbar artificial disc versus Charité lumbar total disc replacement for the treatment of degenerative disc disease: A randomized non-inferiority trial with minimum of 2 years’ follow-up
Kenneth Pettine and Andrew Hersh

International Journal of Spine Surgery January 2011, 5 (4) 108-113; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esas.2011.07.003

Trauma

Open Access
Vertebral augmentation treatment of painful osteoporotic compression fractures with the Kiva VCF Treatment System
Luis M. Rosales Olivarez, Juan M. Dipp, Ricardo Flores Escamilla, Guillermo Bajares, Alejandro Perez, Harrison A. Stubbs and Jon E. Block

International Journal of Spine Surgery January 2011, 5 (4) 114-119; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esas.2011.06.001

Basic science

Open Access
Effects of preoperative education on spinal surgery patients
Ioannis Papanastassiou, Roberta Anderson, Nicole Barber, Cathleen Conover and Antonio E. Castellvi

International Journal of Spine Surgery January 2011, 5 (4) 120-124; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esas.2011.06.003

Editorial

Open Access
An attempt at clinically defining and assessing minimally invasive surgery compared with traditional “open” spinal surgery
Paul C. McAfee, Steven R. Garfin, W. Blake Rodgers, R. Todd Allen, Frank Phillips and Choll Kim

International Journal of Spine Surgery January 2011, 5 (4) 125-130; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esas.2011.06.002

Response to Letter to the Editor

Open Access
Response to editorial regarding a novel surgical treatment option in which posterior dynamic stabilization is used to correct coronal plane tilt of a lumbar total disc replacement
Wayne K. Cheng and Daniel K. Palmer

International Journal of Spine Surgery January 2011, 5 (4) 131; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esas.2011.07.002