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Surgical training in spine surgery: safety and patient-rated outcome

Guy Waisbrod, Anne F. Mannion, Támas F. Fekete, Frank Kleinstueck, Deszö Jeszenszky, Daniel Haschtmann
January 2019, pp 1 - 10
Original Article
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-019-05883-9
First Online: 29 January 2019

GEORG SCHMORL PRIZE OF THE GERMAN SPINE SOCIETY (DWG) 2018: combined inflammatory and mechanical stress weakens the annulus fibrosus: evidences from a loaded bovine AF organ culture

Taryn Saggese, Graciosa Q. Teixeira, Kelly Wade, Lydia Moll, Anita Ignatius, Hans-Joachim Wilke, Raquel M. Goncalves, Cornelia Neidlinger-Wilke
January 2019, pp 1 - 12
Original Article
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-019-05901-w
First Online: 28 January 2019

Prognostic significance of pretreatment plasma D-dimer levels in patients with spinal chordoma: a retrospective cohort study

Bo Li, Hao Zhang, Pingting Zhou, Jiaxiang Yang, Haifeng Wei, Xinghai Yang, Cheng Yang, Zhipeng Wu, Jianru Xiao
January 2019, pp 1 - 11
Original Article
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-018-05872-4
First Online: 25 January 2019

Functional outcome of surgically treated U-shaped sacral fractures: experience from 41 cases

Li He, Chengla Yi, David J. Hak, Zhiyong Hou
January 2019, pp 1 - 10
Original Article
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-019-05900-x
First Online: 24 January 2019

Failure to maintain segmental lordosis during TLIF for one-level degenerative spondylolisthesis negatively affects clinical outcome 5 years postoperatively: a prospective cohort of 57 patients

Matevž Kuhta, Klemen Bošnjak, Rok Vengust
January 2019, pp 1 - 6
Original Article
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-019-05890-w
First Online: 24 January 2019

A pilot randomized controlled trial of 6-week combined exercise program on fasting insulin and fitness levels in individuals with spinal cord injury

Dong-Il Kim, J. Andrew Taylor, Can Ozan Tan, Hyuna Park, Ji Young Kim, Sang-Yong Park, Kyong-Mee Chung, Young-Hee Lee, Bum-Suk Lee, Justin Y. Jeon
January 2019, pp 1 - 10
Original Article
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-019-05885-7
First Online: 24 January 2019

Letter to the Editor concerning "Comparison of combined anterior-posterior approach versus posterior-only approach in neuromuscular scoliosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis" by Shao ZX, et al. [Eur Spine J; (2018) 27(9): 2213-2222]

Fei Jia, Jianmin Sun
January 2019, pp 1 - 2
Letter to the Editor
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-019-05895-5
First Online: 24 January 2019

Can objective functional impairment in lumbar degenerative disease be reliably assessed at home using the five-repetition sit-to-stand test? A prospective study

Victor E. Staartjes, Femke Beusekamp, Marc L. Schröder
January 2019, pp 1 - 9
Original Article
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-019-05897-3
First Online: 24 January 2019

Type II odontoid fracture in elderly patients treated conservatively: is fracture healing the goal?

Giorgio Lofrese, Antonio Musio, Federico De Iure, Francesco Cultrera, Antonio Martucci, Corrado Iaccarino, Walid Ibn Essayed, Reza Ghadirpour, Franco Servadei, Michele Alessandro Cavallo, Pasquale De Bonis
January 2019, pp 1 - 8
Original Article
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-019-05898-2
First Online: 23 January 2019

Spinal deformity and malocclusion association is not supported by high-quality studies: results from a systematic review of the literature

Francesco Langella, Federico Fusini, Gregorio Rossi, Jorge Hugo Villafañe, Nicola Migliaccio, Sabrina Donzelli, Pedro Berjano
January 2019, pp 1 - 14
Original Article
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-019-05896-4
First Online: 23 January 2019