Background: Pedicle screws are widely used in spinal surgery. There is extensive published
literature concerning the use of pedicle screw instrumentation for spinal surgery in adults. …

Background: Treatment of congenital spine deformity has high surgical risk due to abnormal
anatomy and dysmorphic pedicles. We hypothesized that an image-guided navigation …

Study Design. Retrospective study comparing cranial facet joint violation rates of open and
percutaneous pedicle screws inserted using 3-dimensional image-guidance. Objective. To …

Scoliosis deformity has been linked with deleterious changes in the thoracic cavity that
affect pulmonary function. The causal relationship between spinal deformity and pulmonary …

Background Pedicle screws are biomechanically superior over other spinal fixation devices.
When improperly positioned, they lose this advantage and put adjacent structures at risk. …

Study Design. A retrospective cohort study reporting the use of intraoperative computed
tomography (CT) and image-guided navigation system for the placement of pedicle screws in …

Background The sacroiliac joint has been implicated as a source of chronic low back pain in
15% to 30% of patients. When nonsurgical approaches fail, sacroiliac joint fusion may be …

Background Multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR AB) with and without
Staphylococcus aureus (SA) is a commonly isolated organism in infected segmental bone defects …

Methods: To qualify for survey participation, the surgeon had to perform at least one open or
MIS SIJ fusion procedure between 2009 and 2012. All surgeons were instructed to review …

… Of note, cases for the open SI joint fusion group in this study is the same cohort from a
recently published propensity matched study by Ledonio et al but the cases for the MIS group in …