The use of bone allografts in the spine.

GR Buttermann, PA Glazer… - Clinical Orthopaedics and …, 1996 - journals.lww.com
Bone allografts are commonly used in spinal surgery. Structural allografts placed anteriorly
in the spine may be used as interbody grafts or as strut grafts spanning multiple segments. …

Experimental measurement of ligament force, facet force, and segment motion in the human lumbar spine

MJ Schendel, KB Wood, GR Buttermann, JJ Lewis… - Journal of …, 1993 - Elsevier
Facet forces, longitudinal ligament loads, and vertebral body motion were experimentally
measured in five fresh human lumbar spine segments, L1–L2. Strain gages on the bone …

Treatment of lumbar disc herniation: epidural steroid injection compared with discectomy: a prospective, randomized study

GR Buttermann - JBJS, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Background: Epidural steroid injection is a low-risk alternative to surgical intervention in the
treatment of lumbar disc herniation. The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy …

The effect of spinal steroid injections for degenerative disc disease

GR Buttermann - The Spine Journal, 2004 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: No conclusive evidence exists to determine that spinal steroid injections
give lasting improvement in patients with predominantly axial low back pain resulting from …

Operative compared with nonoperative treatment of a thoracolumbar burst fracture without neurological deficit: a prospective randomized study with follow-up at …

KB Wood, GR Buttermann, R Phukan, CC Harrod… - JBJS, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Background: Studies comparing operative with nonoperative treatment of a stable burst
fracture of the thoracolumbar junction in neurologically intact patients have not shown a …

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion outcomes over 10 years: a prospective study

GR Buttermann - Spine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
… The rate for surgical treatment of adjacent conditions was 21% at the 10-year follow-up and
was linearly related (r 2 = 0.98; Figure 6) to time after the index ACDF surgery. The true rate …

Measurement of in vivo intradiscal pressure in healthy thoracic intervertebral discs

…, KP Schellhas, WD Lew, GR Buttermann… - Spine, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. In vivo pressures were measured in radiologically healthy middle and lower
thoracic discs in 6 adult volunteers. Objectives. To quantify and compare intradiscal …

Revision of failed lumbar fusions: a comparison of anterior autograft and allograft

GR Buttermann, PA Glazer, SS Hu, DS Bradford - Spine, 1997 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. The radiographic and clinical results of two different anterior structural grafts
were compared in 38 patients who had combined anterior-posterior revision surgery for failed …

[HTML][HTML] Lumbar total disc replacement for discogenic low back pain: two-year outcomes of the activL multicenter randomized controlled IDE clinical trial

…, D Coric, VV Patel, SP Leary, DH Dinh, GR Buttermann… - 2015 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. A prospective, multicenter, randomized, controlled, investigational device
exemption (IDE) noninferiority trial. Objective. The aim of this study was to evaluate the …

In vitro analysis of anterior and posterior fixation in an experimental unstable burst fracture model

…, BP Beaubien, GR Buttermann… - Clinical Spine …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
… Specifically, the ROM versus DEXA plots showed negative slopes in combined flexion-extension
for the anterior-only (R 2 =0.28, P=0.14) constructs. A similar relationship appeared in …