Study Design. A prospective study of spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis was initiated in
1955 with a radiographic and clinical study of 500 first-grade children. Objective. To determine …

Study Design. Retrospective chart review of 311 anterior cervical procedures. Objectives.
To assess the incidence and variables that predispose to an airway complication in a large …

Study Design. A detailed review of anterior cervical fusion procedures from a university-based
spine specialty service was completed. Noted were the laterality of approach, number of …

… Beutler et al 3 reported the incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury to be 2.1%, which
increased significantly to 9.5% with reoperative ACDF … © 2013 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) procedures have a
known incidence of subsidence. The individual risk of subsidence for specific lumbar levels in …

Background: This research was initiated to compare the long-term clinical safety and effectiveness
of the selectively constrained SECURE-C (Globus Medical, Audubon, Pennsylvania) …

Study Design. Technique development to use the da Vince Robotic Surgical System for anterior
lumbar interbody fusion at L5–S1 is detailed. A case report is also presented. Objective. …

Study Design. Forty patients were enrolled in 2 FDA-approved pilot Investigational Device
Exemption (IDE) studies using Cortoss for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures (…

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Anterior cervical plating increases stability and hence improves
fusion rates to treat cervical spine pathologies, which are often symptomatic at multiple levels…

Ribosomal protein (rp)S5 belongs to the family of the highly conserved rp's that contains
rpS7 from prokaryotes and rpS5 from eukaryotes. Alignment of rpS5/rpS7 from metazoans (…