BACKGROUND: Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration remains a clinically important
condition for which treatment is costly and relatively ineffective. The molecular basis of …

Background context Adjacent segment disease (ASD) is symptomatic deterioration of spinal
levels adjacent to the site of a previous fusion. A critical issue related to ASD is whether …

Purpose Postoperative surgical site infections (SSI) are a frequent complication following
posterior lumbar spinal surgery. In this manuscript we review strategies for prevention, …

Study Design. Reliability and agreement study, retrospective case series. Objective. To
develop a widely accepted, comprehensive yet simple classification system with clinically …

Purpose This project describes a morphology-based subaxial cervical spine traumatic injury
classification system. Using the same approach as the thoracolumbar system, the goal was …

Background The various methods of lumbar interbody fusion have been described in the
literature. With the development of the lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) approach, a wider …

Purpose The goal of the current study is to establish a surgical algorithm to accompany the
AOSpine thoracolumbar spine injury classification system. Methods A survey was sent to …

Background: Patellar dislocation is a common traumatic injury in the pediatric and adolescent
population. The primary constraint to lateral subluxation and dislocation of the patella is …

Study Design. Retrospective review. Objective. (1) To describe change in treatment patterns
for degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS).(2) To report regional variation in treatment of DS.(3…

… Acquisition of data: Kepler, Sharma. Analysis and interpretation of data: Kepler, Sharma,
Huang, Meredith. … Approved the final version of the manuscript on behalf of all authors: Kepler. …