aDivision of Spinal Surgery/Department of Orthopaedic and Neurosurgery, NYU Medical Center, NY Spine Institute, New York, NY
bDepartment of Orthopaedics, Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health, NY, NY
cDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
dDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
eDeparment of Orthopedic Surgery, SUNY Downstate, New York, NY
fDivision of Orthopaedic Surgery, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA
gDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
hDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
iDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
jDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
kDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Center for Surgery and Public Health, Boston, MA
lDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Southwest Scoliosis Center, Dallas, TX
mDepartment of Spine Surgery, Denver International Spine Clinic, Presbyterian St. Luke’s/Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, Denver, CO
nDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Seattle, WA
oDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
pDepartment of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
qDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA
No funding was received in relation to creation of this work.
International Spine Study Group reports conflicts of interest from NuVasive, and SI Bone. Past conflicts include DePuy Synthes, K2M, Stryker, Biomet, Allosource, and Orthofix. The remaining authors report no conflicts of interest.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Peter G. Passias, MD, Division of Spinal Surgery/Department of Orthopaedic and Neurosurgery, NYU Medical Center, NY Spine Institute, 301 East 17th Street, New York, NY, 10003; E-mail: [email protected]