Features

Thursday, 02 Feb 2012

James Yue, programme chair for the annual meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery (ISASS12; 20–23 March 2012, Barcelona, Spain) talks to Spinal News International about advances in spinal surgery and the themes of ISASS12. [read more]

Thursday, 27 Oct 2011

Alan Crockard and David Choi review the effect of surgery on quality of life in patients with spinal epidural metastases. Crockard also gave a talk about this topic at IMAST. [read more]

Thursday, 27 Oct 2011

The Whitecloud Awards honour the best clinical and scientific papers at IMAST. This year’s winners, Jacob Buchowski and Vishal Sarwahi, talk to Spinal News International about their award-winning papers. [read more]

Thursday, 13 Oct 2011

Greg Anderson, orthopaedic surgeon, Philadelphia, USA, is chairing a hands-on course on minimally invasive surgery at the upcoming 26th annual meeting of the North American Spine Society (NASS) in Chicago, USA, he shared with Spinal News International his views on the evidence to support the use of minimally invasive spinal surgery, the reluctance from some surgeons to use less-invasive techniques and the skills needed to become proficient in these techniques. [read more]

Friday, 01 Jul 2011

Lawrence Lenke, the surgeon behind the Lenke system of classification, tells Spinal News International how one of the most feared complications of spinal deformity surgery is lower extremity paralysis and how surgeons have to thoroughly prepare pre-operatively to identify patients who are high-risk. [read more]

Thursday, 21 Apr 2011

Jeffrey Wang spoke to Spinal News International about the latest developments in biologics, off-label use of rhBMP2 and interesting research findings which emerged from the Global Spine Congress, recently held in Barcelona, Spain. [read more]

Friday, 04 Feb 2011

Alexis Kelekis and Dimitrios Filippiadis spoke to Spinal News about how quantitative discomanometry might serve as useful tool for patient selection in choosing the appropriate percutaneous therapy. [read more]

Thursday, 27 Jan 2011

Spinal surgery in the elderly is correlated with high complication rates depending mostly on cardiac function and the status of the immune system. Marco GA Teli recommends a multidisciplinary approach. [read more]

Thursday, 27 Jan 2011

Spinal News International interviewed physician-inventor Vincent Arlet on his creation, Scolisoft, an online library of surgical cases of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis that can be queried with a click of a mouse. [read more]

Thursday, 27 Jan 2011

Kenneth A Pettine tells Spinal News International about the new crop of artificial discs and general challenges for arthroplasty. Pettine is a co-inventor of the Maverick artificial disc. [read more]