Background: We studied the incidence, prevalence, and radiographic progression of
symptomatic adjacent-segment disease, which we defined as the development of new …

Study Design. This retrospective, questionnaire-based investigation evaluated iliac crest
bone graft (ICBG) site morbidity in patients having undergone a single-level anterior cervical …

Cervical myelopathy is a varied clinical syndromes resulting from spinal cord dysfunction.
Underlying causes are numerous, but spondylosis at one or more levels is the most common …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The classification scheme of odontoid fractures described by
Anderson and D'Alonzo is the one most commonly used. However, uncertainty exists in the …

ContextLumbar diskectomy is the most common surgical procedure performed for back and
leg symptoms in US patients, but the efficacy of the procedure relative to nonoperative care …

Given the number of spinal fusions performed annually, concerns have mounted over the
potential for adjacent segment degeneration (radiographic changes of degeneration at levels …

Background Management of degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis is
controversial. Surgery is widely used, but its effectiveness in comparison with that of nonsurgical …

Study Design. Systematic review of published incidence of radiographic adjacent segment
degeneration (ASDeg) and symptomatic adjacent segment disease (ASDis) after arthrodesis …

Background: There has been little enthusiasm for somatosensory evoked potential monitoring
in cervical spine surgery as a result, in part, of the increased risk of motor tract injury at this …

Study Design. In vitro comparison of four reconstruction techniques following transforaminal
lumbar interbody fusion in a human cadaveric model. Introduction. Transforaminal lumbar …