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James N. Weinstein |
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Reviewers of the Year
SPINE thanks Dr. Scott Boden and Dr. Daryl Fourney for completing the best reviews in 2011.
Dr. Scott Boden received his BA and MD from the University of Pennsylvania and completed an Orthopaedic Residency at The George Washington University Medical Center, followed by a Spine Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals. He is the Clinical Director of the Whitesides Orthopaedic Research Laboratory and has received many awards including the Volvo Award for Low Back Pain Research (four times), The Marshal Urist Young Investigator Award, the North American Spine Society Outstanding Paper Award (seven times), and the AAOS/ORS Kappa Delta Research Award. He has received the Leon Wiltse Award for Outstanding Contributions to the field of spine surgery from the North American Spine Society and is a Deputy Editor for SPINE Journal. Dr. Boden has authored over one hundred and forty peer-reviewed articles on spine and basic science topics as well as thirty chapters and seven textbooks. Dr. Boden is currently a tenured Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Emory University School of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Emory Orthopaedics and Spine Center.
 Dr. Daryl Fourney completed his medical school and residency training in Neurosurgery at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He did a fellowship in neurosurgical oncology with a special interest in spine tumors at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He developed a research collaboration with Dr. Ziya Gokalsan and Dr. Laurence Rhines that has continued to this day. He has authored more than sixty published peer-reviewed articles and ten book chapters. He was President of the Canadian Spine Society from 2007 to 2009 and is a member of SPINE Journal's Associate Editorial Board. This year he is Annual Meeting Chair for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves. He has been the Director of the Neurosurgery residency training program at the University of Saskatchewan since 2003.
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Hamamoto, Hideki; Miyamoto, Hiroshi; Doita, Minoru; Takada, Toru; Nishida, Kotaro; Kurosaka, Masahiro
Spine. 37(3):161-167, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31821a874b
This study demonstrated that non- and degenerated discs interacting with macrophages produced significantly higher doses of prostaglandin E2 and interleukin-6 than they did in the absence of macrophages. Immunohistochemistry showed anticyclooxygenase-2 and anti-interleukin-6 reactivities in the chondrocytes of the disc matrix obtained from the degenerated disc.
Sapin-de Brosses, Emilie; Jolivet, Erwan; Travert, Christophe; Mitton, David; Skalli, Wafa
Spine. 37(3):E156-E162, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182293628
The clinical use of quantitative computed tomography-based finite element models for the in vivo follow-up of the whole spine is limited by the radiation dose and the lying position. The study validates subject-specific finite element models derived from low-dose biplanar imaging for the prediction of vertebral strength in anterior bending.
Nassr, Ahmad; Eck, Jason C.; Ponnappan, Ravi K.; Zanoun, Rami R.; Donaldson, William F. III; Kang, James D.
Spine. 37(3):174-178, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318219cfe9
A retrospective review of 750 consecutive multilevel decompression procedures of the cervical spine was performed. The overall incidence of C5 nerve palsy was 6.7%. There is no statistically significant difference in incidence of C5 palsy based on surgical procedure, although there was a trend toward high rates with laminectomy and fusion.
Li, Yi-An; Lin, Che-Li; Chang, Ming-Chau; Liu, Chien-Lin; Chen, Tain-Hsiung; Lai, Shih-Chang
Spine. 37(3):179-183, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181f72b05
This study provides analysis of data from 166 patients who underwent single-level vertebroplasty for symptomatic compression fracture. Volume of bone cement injected and degree of vertebral height restoration were found to contribute to subsequent adjacent fracture risk. Increased bone cement filling results in better correction of kyphosis.
Clement, Jean-Luc; Chau, Edouard; Geoffray, Anne; Vallade, Marie-José
Spine. 37(3):184-192, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182155104
Coronal, sagittal, and axial correction of 62 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treated by posterior spinal fusion using a specific method of reduction: simultaneous translation on 2 rods (ST2R). Average coronal correction was 70% and all patients but 1 recovered a normal thoracic kyphosis.
Lafage, Virginie; Ames, Christopher; Schwab, Frank; Klineberg, Eric; Akbarnia, Behrooz; Smith, Justin; Boachie-Adjei, Oheneba; Burton, Douglas; Hart, Robert; Hostin, Richard; Shaffrey, Christopher; Wood, Kirkham; Bess, Shay; International Spine Study Group
Spine. 37(3):E180-E187, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318225b926
The effect of lumbar pedicle subtraction osteotomy on unfused thoracic levels in short fusions (reciprocal change [RC]) is poorly understood. These RCs can negatively impact final postoperative alignment. Older patients and those with larger pelvic incidence and truncal imbalance are more likely to have unfavorable thoracic RC (increased kyphosis).
Kanno, Haruo; Ozawa, Hiroshi; Koizumi, Yutaka; Morozumi, Naoki; Aizawa, Toshimi; Kusakabe, Takashi; Ishii, Yushin; Itoi, Eiji
Spine. 37(3):207-213, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182134e73
The dural sac cross-sectional area in axial loaded magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) had significant and good correlations with severity of clinical symptoms in patients with lumbar spinal canal stenosis, although conventional MRI did not have any satisfactory correlations. Axial loaded MRI provides more beneficial information than the conventional MRI in clinical assessment of patients with lumbar spinal canal stenosis.
Deyo, Richard A.; Ching, Alex; Matsen, Laura; Martin, Brook I.; Kreuter, William; Jarvik, Jeffrey G.; Angier, Heather; Mirza, Sohail K.
Spine. 37(3):222-230, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31821bfa3a
Among Medicare patients with lumbar stenosis, use of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) in fusion surgery increased rapidly. Major short-term complications were nearly identical with or without BMP, as were reoperation rates, even after adjusting for demographic and clinical features. On average, use of BMP was associated with about $15,000 higher hospital charges, though some of the difference may not be due to BMP alone; Medicare reimbursements under the diagnosis-related group system were only slightly greater; and BMP was associated with a lower rate of nursing home discharge.
Passias, Peter G.; Ma, Yan; Chiu, Ya Lin; Mazumdar, Madhu; Girardi, Federico P.; Memtsoudis, Stavros G.
Spine. 37(3):247-255, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31821350d0
Staging circumferential spine surgery procedures during the same hospitalization does not decrease mortality and may even increase morbidity.
Larson, A. Noelle; Santos, Edward R. G.; Polly, David W. Jr; Ledonio, Charles G. T.; Sembrano, Jonathan N.; Mielke, Cary H.; Guidera, Kenneth J.
Spine. 37(3):E188-E194, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31822a2e0a
Using real-time computed tomography (CT) and navigation, 984 pedicle screws were placed in pediatric patients, with an accuracy rate of 96.4%. Pedicle screw placement in children using intraoperative CT and 3-dimensional (3D) navigation resulted in no identified complications and is a promising technique for improving the safety of pedicle screw placement.
Hirai, Takashi; Kato, Tsuyoshi; Kawabata, Shigenori; Enomoto, Mitsuhiro; Tomizawa, Shoji; Yoshii, Toshitaka; Sakaki, Kyohei; Shinomiya, Kenichi; Okawa, Atsushi
Spine. 37(3):E195-E198, February 01, 2012.
doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31822ba817
This is the first report of adhesive arachnoiditis with a giant anterior arachnoid spinal cyst and extensive syringomyelia in the thoracic spinal cord after combined spinal and epidural anesthesia. The patient was a 29-year-old woman. Insertion of a cyst-peritoneal shunt decompressed the cyst and inhibited the progressive neurologic deficits.
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Upcoming Articles
February 15, 2012
Clinical Indications for Arterial Imaging in Cervical Trauma
Jesse Even
Validation of a Miniature Thermocron for Monitoring Thoracolumbarsacral Orthosis Wear Time
Michael Hart Schwartz
The Epidemiology of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in British Columbia, Canada
Brian Lenehan
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