Background context Percutaneous augmentation with bone cement is a widely accepted
modality of treatment for thoracic and lumbar vertebral osteoporotic fractures. Infection after …

Cervical spine spondylodiscitis is a rare, but serious manifestation of spinal infection. We
present a retrospective study of 20 consecutive patients between 01/1994 and 12/1999 treated …

Study Design. Retrospective study on the incidence of reoperation in patients previously
treated by instrumented posterior lumbar interbody fusion. Objectives. To answer the following …

Study Design. A retrospective study of 70 patients undergoing surgical treatment for adjacent
segment disease (ASD) after anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF). Objective…

Objective Study the MRI signal of fatty lesions (FL) by immunohistological analysis of vertebral
body biopsies of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) compared with degenerative …

Study Design. A retrospective study of 30 consecutive cases of pyogenic cervical spine
infection, excluding postoperative infections. Objective. To establish a real incidence of the …

Study Design: A prospective randomized study. Objectives: To evaluate the effect of bone
cement viscosity as well as of bone porosity on cement leakage during vertebroplasty and to …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Over the last two decades, there has been a rapid increase in
the use of cervical spine interbody fusion cages. Reoperation rate remains an important …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the outcome of expandable titanium cage
implantation in large defects caused by acute vertebral osteomyelitis. Twenty-five patients with …

Study Design. A retrospective review of prospectively collected databases of 139 consecutive
patients who underwent transoral surgery for lesions of the upper cervical spine. Objective. …