Issue Highlights

  • Preclinical and clinical experience with a viscoelastic total disc replacement
    December 2011 (Vol. 5 | No. 4 | Pages 97-107)

    Burkhard Rischke, Raymond S. Ross, Boris A. Jollenbeck, Kari B. Zimmers, Neal D. Defibaugh

  • Kineflex lumbar artificial disc versus Charité lumbar total disc replacement for the treatment of degenerative disc disease: A randomized non-inferiority trial with minimum of 2 years' follow-up
    December 2011 (Vol. 5 | No. 4 | Pages 108-113)

    Kenneth Pettine, Andrew Hersh

  • Vertebral augmentation treatment of painful osteoporotic compression fractures with the Kiva VCF Treatment System
    December 2011 (Vol. 5 | No. 4 | Pages 114-119)

    Luis M. Rosales Olivarez, Juan M. Dipp, Ricardo Flores Escamilla, Guillermo Bajares, Alejandro Perez, Harrison A. Stubbs, Jon E. Block

  • Effects of preoperative education on spinal surgery patients
    December 2011 (Vol. 5 | No. 4 | Pages 120-124)

    Ioannis Papanastassiou, Roberta Anderson, Nicole Barber, Cathleen Conover, Antonio E. Castellvi

  • An attempt at clinically defining and assessing minimally invasive surgery compared with traditional “open” spinal surgery
    December 2011 (Vol. 5 | No. 4 | Pages 125-130)

    Paul C. McAfee, Steven R. Garfin, W. Blake Rodgers, R. Todd Allen, Frank Phillips, Choll Kim

  • Response to editorial regarding a novel surgical treatment option in which posterior dynamic stabilization is used to correct coronal plane tilt of a lumbar total disc replacement
    December 2011 (Vol. 5 | No. 4 | Page 131)

    Wayne K. Cheng, Daniel K. Palmer

  • Cost-utility analysis of posterior minimally invasive fusion compared with conventional open fusion for lumbar spondylolisthesis
    June 2011 (Vol. 5 | No. 2 | Pages 29-35)

    Y. Raja Rampersaud, Randolph Gray, Steven J. Lewis, Eric M. Massicotte, Michael G. Fehlings

  • Hybrid dynamic stabilization with posterior spinal fusion in the lumbar spine
    June 2011 (Vol. 5 | No. 2 | Pages 36-43)

    William R.S. Hudson, John Eric Gee, James B. Billys, Antonio E. Castellvi

  • Results at 24 months from the prospective, randomized, multicenter Investigational Device Exemption trial of ProDisc-C versus anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with 4-year follow-up and continued access patients
    December 2010 (Vol. 4 | No. 4 | Pages 122-128)

    Rick B. Delamarter, Daniel Murrey, Michael E. Janssen, Jeffrey A. Goldstein, Jack Zigler, Bobby K.-B. Tay, Bruce Darden

  • The reaction of intervertebral discs to compression forces
    June 2011 (Vol. 5 | No. 2 | Pages 55-56)

    C. Hirsch, Paul A. Anderson

  • Novel indication for posterior dynamic stabilization: Correction of disc tilt after lumbar total disc replacement
    June 2011 (Vol. 5 | No. 2 | Pages 44-47)

    Wayne K. Cheng, Daniel Kyle Palmer, Vikram Jadhav

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International Journal of Spine Surgery is the official scientific journal of the ISASS International. The goal of International Journal of Spine Surgery is to promote and disseminate online the most up-to-date scientific and clinical research into innovations in motion preservation and new spinal surgery technology, including basic science, biologics, and tissue engineering. The Journal is dedicated to educating spine surgeons worldwide via video and interactive technologies and by reporting on the scientific basis, indications, surgical techniques, complications, outcomes, and follow-up data for promising spinal procedures.

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