Abstracts of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves Phoenix, Arizona • March 4–7, 2015

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3171/2015.3.FOC-DSPNabstracts
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Mar 2015
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100. Intraocular Pressure in Lumbar Spine Fusion Patients – A Randomized, Prospective Study

Authors: Sanford E. Emery, Scott D. Daffner, John C. France, Matthew Ellison, Brian W. Grose, Gerald R. Hobbs, and Nina B. Clovis
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  • 1 West Virginia University, Department of Orthopaedics; 
  • 2 West Virginia University, Department of Anesthesiology; 
  • 3 West Virginia University, Department of Statistics; 
  • 4 West Virginia University, Department of Orthopaedics 

101. Costs of Cervical Disc Replacement versus Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion for Treatment of Single-Level Cervical Disc Disease: An Analysis of the Blue Health Intelligence Database for Acute and Long-Term Costs and Complications

Authors: Kris Radcliff, Jeffrey Zigler, and Jack Zigler
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  • 1 Rothman Institute and Thomas Jefferson University; 
  • 2 Texas Back Institute 

102. Laminoplasty vs Laminectomy and Fusion to Treat Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Outcomes of the Prospective Multicenter AOSpine International CSM Study

Authors: Michael G. Fehlings, Carlo Santaguida, Ahmed G Ibrahim, Lindsay Tetreault, Branko Kopjar, Shashank Sharad Kale, Helton LA Defino, Giuseppe Barbagallo, Ronald HMA Bartels, Qiang Zhou, Paul M. Arnold, Mehmet Zileli, Gamaliel Tan, Osmar Moraes, Yasutsugu Yukawa, Manuel Alvarado, Massimo Scerrati, Tomoaki Toyone, Masato Tanaka, and Ciaran Bolger
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  • 1 Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 2 University of Toronto; 
  • 3 The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery; 
  • 4 All India Inst of Med Sciences; 
  • 5 Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto; 
  • 6 Policlinico University Hospital; 
  • 7 Radboud University Medical Center; 
  • 8 Southwestern Hospital; 
  • 9 Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 10 1416 sok 7; 
  • 11 Tan Tock Seng Hospital; 
  • 12 Hospital San Juan de Dios; 
  • 13 Via Conca 71; 
  • 14 Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center; 
  • 15 Frenchay 

103. A Prospective, Multi-Center Assessment of the Best Versus Worst Clinical Outcomes for Adult Spinal Deformity (ASD) Surgery

Authors: Justin S. Smith, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Virginie Lafage, Frank Schwab, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Eric Klineberg, Munish Gupta, Justin K Scheer, Richard A. Hostin, Kai-Ming G. Fu, Alex Soroceanu, Robert Hart, Douglas C. Burton, Shay Bess, and Christopher P. Ames
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  • 1 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 2 University of Virginia; 
  • 3 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 4 University of California - Davis; 
  • 5 University of California - Davis; Ortho Surgery; 
  • 6 University of California, San Diego; 
  • 7 Southwest Scoliosis Institute / Baylor Scoliosis Center; 
  • 8 Weill Cornell Medical College; 
  • 9 Ohsu Spine Center; 
  • 10 Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine Center; 
  • 11 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery 

104. Dual-gene Engineered Human Neural Stem Cells for the Targeted Treatment of Experimental Spinal Cord Gliomas

Authors: Alexander E. Ropper, xiang zeng, Hariprakash Haragopal, Jamie Anderson, Dou Yu, Inbo Han, Hong J Lee, Seung U. Kim, and Yang D. Teng
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  • 1 Barrow Neurological Institute; 
  • 2 San 5, Wonchon-dong; 
  • 3 Brigham and Women's Hospital 

105. A Cost-Effective Comparison Between Transforaminal and Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusions Using the Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio at 2 Year Follow-up.

Authors: Gurpreet Surinder Gandhoke, HanMoe Shin, Yue Fang Chang, Zachary J Tempel, Peter C. Gerszten, David O. Okonkwo, and Adam S. Kanter
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  • 1 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; 
  • 2 University of Pittsburgh; 
  • 3 UPMC; 
  • 4 Univiversity of Pittsburgh Physicians-Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 5 University of Pittsburgh; 
  • 6 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian 

106. Cervical Disc Arthroplasty vs. Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: Seven-Year Outcomes from a Prospective, Multicenter Investigational Device Exemption Study

Authors: Mark Edwin Shaffrey, Matthew F Gornet, John Kenneth Burkus, and Perry J. Argires
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  • 1 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 2 The Orthopedic Center of St. Louis; 
  • 3 Hughston Clinic, PC 

107. Cost Analysis of Postoperative Cervical Sagittal Balance for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

Authors: Nikhil Nayak, Robert G. Whitmore, Marie Roguski, Edward C. Benzel, Jill Curran, Subu N. Magge, Erica Fay Bisson, Ajit A. Krishnaney, Michael P. Steinmetz, William Butler, Robert F. Heary, and Zoher Ghogawala
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  • 1 University of Pennsylvania; 
  • 2 Lahey Hospital & Medical Center; 
  • 3 Tufts Medical Center; 
  • 4 Cleveland Clinic Foundation; 
  • 5 Lahey Clinic; 
  • 6 University of Utah Health Care; 
  • 7 Cleveland Clinic Foundation; 
  • 8 Center for Spine Health; 
  • 9 Massachusetts General Hospital; 
  • 10 Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School; 
  • 11 Lahey Hospital and Medical Center 

108. Predictors of Readmission Within 30 Days After Spinal Surgery: A Single-center, Multivariate Analysis

Authors: Ryan Khanna, Joseph L McDevitt, Jamal McClendon, Zachary Adam Smith, Nader S. Dahdaleh, and Richard G. Fessler
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  • 1 Northwestern University Hospital; 
  • 2 Northwestern Dept. of Neurological Surgery; 
  • 3 Northwestern University 

109. Prognostic Factors for Survival in Surgical Series of Symptomatic Metastatic Epidural Spinal Cord Compression: A Prospective North American Multi-Centre Study in 145 patients

Authors: Anick Nater-Goulet, Michael G. Fehlings, Lindsay Tetreault, Branko Kopjar, Paul M. Arnold, Mark B. Dekutoski, Joel Finkelstein, Charles Fisher, John France, Laurence D. Rhines, James M. Schuster, Alexander R. Vaccaro, and Peter Rose
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  • 1 University of Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 2 Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 3 Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 4 The Mayo Clinic; 
  • 5 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center; 
  • 6 Vancouver Spine Surgery Institute; 
  • 7 University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center; 
  • 8 University of Pennsylvania 

110. Predicting Occurrence of Spine Surgery Complications Using ‘Big Data' Modeling of an Administrative Claims Database

Authors: John K. Ratliff, Lu Tian, Anand Veeravagu, Tyler Scott Cole, and Richard Olshen
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  • 1 Stanford University Medical Center; 
  • 2 Stanford University School of Medicine; 
  • 3 Stanford Medical School 

111. How to Predict Return to Work After Lumbar Discectomy: Answers from the NeuroPoint-SD Registry

Authors: Khoi Duc Than, Jill Curran, Daniel K. Resnick, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Zoher Ghogawala, and Praveen V. Mummaneni
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  • 1 UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery; 
  • 2 University of Wisconsin-School of Medicine; 
  • 3 University of Virginia; 
  • 4 Lahey Hospital and Medical Center; 
  • 5 University of California San Francisco Spine Center 

112. Comparative Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Surgery for Posterior Lumbar Fusion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Authors: Christina Goldstein, Kevin Macwan, Kala Sundararajan, and Raja Rampersaud
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  • Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto 

113. Long-term clinical and occupational outcomes after long segmental arthrodesis for spinal deformity: The Effect of BMI and Smoking

Authors: Dennis Crandall, Jan Revella, Ken Schmidt, and R. McLemore
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  • 1 Sonoran Spine Center; 
  • 2 Mayo Clinic 

200. Operative versus Non-operative Management In Elderly Patients over 75 years Undergoing Reconstructive Spinal Deformity Surgery

Authors: Daniel M. Sciubba, Justin K Scheer, Justin S. Smith, Eric Klineberg, Munish Gupta, Gregory Mundis, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Virginie Lafage, Han Jo Kim, Tyler R. Koski, Khaled Kebaish, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Shay Bess, Robert Hart, Frank Schwab, and Christopher P. Ames
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  • 1 Johns Hopkins University; 
  • 2 University of California, San Diego; 
  • 3 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 4 University of California - Davis; 
  • 5 University of California - Davis; Ortho Surgery; 
  • 6 San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders; 
  • 7 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 8 Northwestern University; 
  • 9 University of Virginia; 
  • 10 Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine Center; 
  • 11 Ohsu Spine Center; 
  • 12 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery 

201. The Influence of Spinopelvic Alignment on Development of Symptomatic Adjacent Level Disease Following Single Level Lumbar Fusion

Authors: Zachary J Tempel, Bryan D Bolinger, Gurpreet Surinder Gandhoke, Phillip Parry, David O. Okonkwo, and Adam S. Kanter
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  • 1 UPMC; 
  • 2 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; 
  • 3 University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre; 
  • 4 University of Pittsburgh Medical College; 
  • 5 University of Pittsburgh; 
  • 6 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian 

202. Cost and Quality of Life Implications of Adjacent Segment Disease Following Lumbar Fusion

Authors: Vincent J Alentado, Daniel Lubelski, Andrew T Healy, Jacob A. Miller, Douglas Orr, Michael P. Steinmetz, Edward C. Benzel, and Thomas E. Mroz
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  • 1 Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; 
  • 2 Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine; 
  • 3 Center for Spine Health; 
  • 4 Cleveland Clinic Foundation; 
  • 5 Cleveland Clinic - Neuroscience Institute 

203. The Impact of Dynamic Alignment, Motion and Center of Rotation on Myelopathy Grade and Regional Disability in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

Authors: Shian Liu, Renaud Lafage, Justin S. Smith, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Virginie Lafage, Vincent Challier, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Han Jo Kim, Paul M. Arnold, Jens Chapman, Frank Schwab, Eric M. Massicotte, Tim Yoon, Michael G. Fehlings, Christopher P. Ames, and Justin K Scheer
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  • 1 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 2 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 3 University of Virginia; 
  • 4 Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 5 University of Washington; 
  • 6 Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 7 Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 8 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery; 
  • 9 University of California, San Diego 

204. Comparative Sensitivity of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring with MEP in Predicting Post-operative Neurological Deficits: Non-degenerative versus Degenerative Myelopathy

Authors: Aaron J. Clark, Michael Safaee, Dean Chou, Philip R. Weinstein, Annette Molinaro, John P Clark III, and Praveen V. Mummaneni
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  • 1 Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute; 
  • 2 University of California, San Francisco; 
  • 3 University of California San Francisco; 
  • 4 University of California, San Francisco; 
  • 5 UCSF; 
  • 6 University of California San Francisco Spine Center 

205. Clinical and Surgical Predictors of Perioperative Complications in Patients with Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Results from the Multicenter, Prospective AOSpine International Study on 479 Patients

Authors: Michael G. Fehlings, Lindsay Tetreault, Branko Kopjar, Gamaliel Tan, Pierre Cote, Helton L A Defino, Shashank Sharad Kale, Giuseppe Barbagallo, Ronald HMA Bartels, Qiang Zhou, Paul M. Arnold, Mehmet Zileli, Yasutsugu Yukawa, Osmar Moraes, Massimo Scerrati, Tomoaki Toyone, Masato Tanaka, Ciaran Bolger, and Manuel Alvarado
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  • 1 Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 2 Tan Tock Seng Hospital; 
  • 3 Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto; 
  • 4 All India Inst of Med Sciences; 
  • 5 Policlinico University Hospital; 
  • 6 Radboud University Medical Center; 
  • 7 Southwestern Hospital; 
  • 8 Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 9 1416 sok 7; 
  • 10 Via Conca 71; 
  • 11 Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center; 
  • 12 Frenchay; 
  • 13 Hospital San Juan de Dios 

206. Association Between Surgeon Experience and Complication Rates in Adult Scoliosis Surgery: A Review of 5,699 Cases from the Scoliosis Research Society Database 2004–2007

Authors: Branko Skovrlj, John M. Caridi, and Samuel K Cho
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  • 1 Mount Sinai School of Medicine; 
  • 2 Mount Sinai Neurosurgery 

207. Scoliosis Surgery in the Elderly: Complications, Readmissions, Reoperations, and Mortality

Authors: Doniel Drazin, Lutfi Al-Khouja, Beatrice Ugiliweneza, Faris Shweikeh, J. Patrick Johnson, Terrence T. Kim, and Maxwell Boakye
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  • 1 Cedars-Sinai Spine Center; 
  • 2 University of Louisville; 
  • 3 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; 
  • 4 Spine Center 

208. Comparison of Resource Use and Health-related Quality-of-life Outcomes Across Multiple Centers Performing Adult Spinal Deformity Surgeries

Authors: Richard A. Hostin, Chessie Robinson, Michael F. O'Brien, Christopher P. Ames, Virginie Lafage, Frank Schwab, Munish Gupta, Justin S. Smith, Douglas C. Burton, Shay Bess, Christopher I. Shaffrey, and Ian McCarthy
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  • 1 Southwest Scoliosis Institute / Baylor Scoliosis Center; 
  • 2 4708 Alliance Blvd; 
  • 3 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery; 
  • 4 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 5 University of California - Davis; Ortho Surgery; 
  • 6 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 7 Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine Center; 
  • 8 University of Virginia; 
  • 9 4708 Alliance Blvd. 

209. Regional and Global Correction Loss in Long Adult Deformity Constructs: Magnitude, Location, and Factors from 183 Patients with 2 Year Follow-up

Authors: Justin K Scheer, Virginie Lafage, Michael P Kelly, Richard A. Hostin, Robert Hart, Eric Klineberg, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Vedat Deviren, Daniel M. Sciubba, Shay Bess, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Frank Schwab, Justin S. Smith, and Christopher P. Ames
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  • 1 University of California, San Diego; 
  • 2 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 3 Washington University; 
  • 4 Southwest Scoliosis Institute / Baylor Scoliosis Center; 
  • 5 Ohsu Spine Center; 
  • 6 University of California - Davis; 
  • 7 Univeristy of California San Francisco; 
  • 8 Johns Hopkins University; 
  • 9 Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine Center; 
  • 10 University of Virginia; 
  • 11 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 12 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery 

210. Complications of the Minimally Invasive Anterior Column Release after Restoration of Global Sagittal Balance in Adult Deformity Surgery

Authors: Gisela Murray, Juan S. Uribe, Konrad Bach, and Joshua Marshall Beckman
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  • 1 University of South Florida - Division of Neurosurgery; 
  • 2 University of South Florida; 
  • 3 University of South Florida 

211. Re-operation Rates in Minimally Invasive, Hybrid and Open Surgical Treatment for Adult Spinal Deformity with Minimum 2-Year Follow-up

Authors: Kai-Ming G. Fu, Adam S. Kanter, David O. Okonkwo, Gregory Mundis, Praveen V. Mummaneni, Neel Anand, Richard G. Fessler, Paul Park, Frank LaMarca, Juan S. Uribe, and Michael Y. Wang
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  • 1 Weill Cornell Medical College; 
  • 2 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian; 
  • 3 University of Pittsburgh; 
  • 4 San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders; 
  • 5 University of California San Francisco Spine Center; 
  • 6 University Of Michigan, Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 7 University of South Florida - Division of Neurosurgery; 
  • 8 University of Miami 

212. Simultaneous Lateral Interbody Fusion and Posterior Percutaneous Instrumentation: A Multi-center Analysis

Authors: Doniel Drazin, Terrence T. Kim, Faris Shweikeh, Luis Marchi, Jonathan N Sembrano, Joseph R O'Brien, Luiz Pimenta, and J. Patrick Johnson
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  • 1 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; 
  • 2 Instituto de Patologia da Coluna; 
  • 3 University of MInnesota; 
  • 4 George Washington University MFA; 
  • 5 Instituto de Patologia da Coluna; 
  • 6 Spine Center 

213. Rate of Radiographic Appearance of Fusion and Vertebral Body Fracture Following Lateral Interbody Instrumentation

Authors: Timothy C. Ryken, Steven Dillavou, Laura Chapin, Tia Derflinger, and Kelly Ward
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  • 1 Iowa Brain & Spine Institute; 
  • 2 Iowa Spine & Brain Institute 

214. Short-segment Percutaneous Pedicle Screw Fixation with Cement Augmentation for Tumor-induced Spinal Instability

Authors: Nelson Moussazadeh, David Rubin, Lily McLaughlin, Eric Lis, Mark H. Bilsky, and Ilya Laufer
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  • 1 New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus); 
  • 2 Legacy Spine & Neuurological Specialists; 
  • 3 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; 
  • 4 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 

215. Assessing the Impact of Thoracolumbar Deformity on Cervical Disability and Pain: How the Back Affects the Neck

Authors: Aaron J. Clark, Taemin Oh, Rajiv Saigal, Carol Li, Devon J Ryan, Eric Klineberg, Robert Hart, Han Jo Kim, Frank Schwab, Justin S. Smith, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Virginie Lafage, Christopher P. Ames, and Justin K Scheer
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  • 1 Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute; 
  • 2 UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine; 
  • 3 University of California San Francisco; 
  • 4 NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases; 
  • 5 University of California - Davis; 
  • 6 Ohsu Spine Center; 
  • 7 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 8 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 9 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery; 
  • 10 University of California, San Diego 

216. Adult Spinal Deformity Patients with Concomitant Preoperative Cervical Deformity Have Inferior Outcomes at 2 Year Follow up

Authors: Justin K Scheer, Justin S. Smith, Peter G Passias, Alex Soroceanu, Anthony Boniello, Frank Schwab, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Han Jo Kim, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Gregory Mundis, Munish Gupta, Eric Klineberg, Virginie Lafage, and Christopher P. Ames
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  • 1 University of California, San Diego; 
  • 2 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 3 University of Virginia; 
  • 4 San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders; 
  • 5 University of California - Davis; Ortho Surgery; 
  • 6 University of California - Davis; 
  • 7 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 8 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery 

217. Impact of Regional and Focal Cervical Alignment on Myelopathy Severity: Report of 151 Patients

Authors: Themistocles Protopsaltis, Michael G. Fehlings, Shian Liu, Justin S. Smith, Virginie Lafage, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Han Jo Kim, Paul M. Arnold, Jens Chapman, Renaud Lafage, Vincent Challier, Frank Schwab, Eric M. Massicotte, Tim Yoon, Christopher P. Ames, and Justin K Scheer
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  • 1 Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 2 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 3 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 4 University of Virginia; 
  • 5 Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 6 University of Washington; 
  • 7 Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 8 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery; 
  • 9 University of California, San Diego 

218. Frequency of Symptomatic Vertebral Body Compression Fractures Requiring Intervention Following Single Fraction Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Spinal Metastases

Authors: Michael Virk, James Han, Eric Liss, Yoshiya Josh Yamada, Mark H. Bilsky, and Ilya Laufer
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  • 1 New York-Presbyterian Hospital Cornell Campus; 
  • 2 CRB 2; 
  • 3 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; 
  • 4 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; 
  • 5 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 

219. Novel Osteoinductive Spinal Instrumentation Enhances Osteogenesis and Fusion: A Preliminary Study

Authors: Matthew R MacEwan, Michael Talcott, Daniel Moran, and Eric C. Leuthardt
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  • 1 Washington University in St. Louis; 
  • 2 Washington University School of Medicine 

220. Geriatric Co-Management Reduces Peri-Operative Complications and Shortens Duration of Hospital Stay After Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Prospective Single Institutional Experience

Authors: Owoicho Adogwa, Parastou Fatemi, Terence Verla, Daniel B Loriaux, Harrison Farber, Gustavo Chagoya, Jessica Rose Moreno, Mitchell Heflin, Oren N. Gottfried, and Carlos Antonio Bagley
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  • 1 Duke University Medical Center, Division of Neurosurgery; 
  • 2 Duke University School of Medicine; 
  • 3 Duke University Medical Center; 
  • 4 Duke University School of Medicine; 
  • 5 Duke University Medical Center; 
  • 6 Duke University Mecical Center; 
  • 7 Duke University Medical Center 

221. Effects of Psoas Muscle Thickness on Outcomes of Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion (XLIF) Surgery

Authors: Terence Verla, Owoicho Adogwa, Jessica Rose Moreno, Harrison Farber, Daniel B Loriaux, Oren N. Gottfried, Joseph S. Cheng, Robert E. Isaacs, and Carlos Antonio Bagley
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  • 1 Duke University School of Medicine; 
  • 2 Duke University Medical Center, Division of Neurosurgery; 
  • 3 Duke University Medical Center; 
  • 4 Duke University Medical Center; 
  • 5 Duke University Mecical Center; 
  • 6 Vanderbilt University Medical Center; 
  • 7 Duke University Medical Center; 
  • 8 Duke University Medical Center 

222. XLIF vs. MAS TLIF for the Treatment of Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: Interim Results from an Ongoing Prospective Multi-Center Comparative Study

Authors: Robert E. Isaacs, Antoine Tohmeh, and Jonathan N Sembrano
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  • 1 Duke University Medical Center; 
  • 2 Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists; 
  • 3 University of MInnesota 

223. Measures of Surgical Effectiveness One-Year After Lumbar Spine Surgery Accurately Predict Two-Year Outcomes

Authors: Owoicho Adogwa, Parastou Fatemi, Terence Verla, Harrison Farber, Joseph S. Cheng, Carlos Antonio Bagley, and Oren N. Gottfried
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  • 1 Duke University Medical Center, Division of Neurosurgery; 
  • 2 Duke University School of Medicine; 
  • 3 Vanderbilt University Medical Center; 
  • 4 Duke University Medical Center; 
  • 5 Duke University Mecical Center 

224. The Effect of Parkinson's Disease on Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery

Authors: Branko Skovrlj, Javier Zabdi Guzman, Christopher A. Sarkiss, Samuel K Cho, and John M. Caridi
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  • 1 Mount Sinai School of Medicine; 
  • 2 Mount Sinai Medical Center; 
  • 3 Mount Sinai Neurosurgery 

225. Opioid-related Adverse Events with Lumbar Spine Surgery: Is the Risk Real?

Authors: David W. Polly, Kevin L Ong, Scott Lovald, Edmund Lau, Mark Kurd, and Kris Radcliff
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  • 1 Exponent; 
  • 2 University of Minnesota; 
  • 3 Toronto Western Hospital 

226. Role of Quantitative MRI Assessments in Predicting Surgical Outcome in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Patients: Results from the Prospective, Multicenter AOSpine North American Study

Authors: Aria Nouri, Michael G. Fehlings, Lindsay Tetreault, Kristian Dalzell, and Juan Jose Zamorano
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227. Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF): Comparison Between Zero Profile Implants and Anterior Cervical Plate and Spacer

Authors: Marjan Alimi, Innocent Njoku, Christoph Hofstetter, Kartik Kesavabhotla, Apostolos Tsiouris, John A. Boockvar, and Roger Hartl
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  • 1 New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center; 
  • 2 Weill Cornell Medical College; 
  • 3 Weill Cornell Medical College; 
  • 4 New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center 

228. Occipitocervical Fixation: A Single Surgeon Experience with 120 Patients

Authors: Eduardo Martinez del Campo Oviedo, Samuel Kalb, Jay D. Turner, Luis Perez-Orribo, Leonardo Rangel-Castilla, Hector Enrique Soriano-Baron, and Nicholas Theodore
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  • 1 Barrow Neurological Institute; 
  • 2 Barrow Neurological Institute; 
  • 3 Barrow Neurological Institute; 
  • 4 Barrow Neurological Institute; 
  • 5 National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery; 
  • 6 Barrow Neurosurgical Associates 

229. Comparison Between Hinged and Contoured Rods for Occipitocervical Arthrodesis

Authors: Kingsley O. Abode-Iyamah, Brian J. Dlouhy, Patrick W. Hitchon, and Nader S. Dahdaleh
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  • 1 University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic; 
  • 2 St. Louis Children's Hospital; 
  • 3 University Of Iowa Hospitals; 
  • 4 Northwestern University 

230. Rate of 30-day Postoperative Myocardial Infarction in Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery

Authors: Timothy Y. Wang, Joel Martin, Daniel Loriaux, and Oren N. Gottfried
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  • 1 Duke University; 
  • 2 University of California, San Diego; 
  • 3 Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 4 Duke University Medical Center 

231. Defining the Prevalence of Unidentified Psychological Comorbidity in a Referral Population for Spinal Cord Stimulation

Authors: Mohammed F. Shamji, Alina Shcharinsky, and Jessica Rodriguez
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232. The Risk of Acute Spinal Cord Injury After Minor Trauma in Patients with Preexisting Cervical Stenosis

Authors: Victor Chang and Langston T. Holly
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  • 1 Henry Ford Hospital; 
  • 2 University of California Los Angeles 

233. Early Behavioral Voiding Patterns Predict Long-term Urinary Dysfunction and Potential Recovery After Experimental Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Authors: Sean Mitchell Aubuchon, Xiaoping Luo, Tyler Bogus, Hung-Yuan Chen, and Daniel J. Hoh
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  • 1 University of Florida; 
  • 2 University of Florida 

234. Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Does Surgical Approach Influence Post-operative Sagittal Alignment and Outcomes?

Authors: Michael G. Fehlings, Vincent Challier, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Han Jo Kim, Paul M. Arnold, Jens Chapman, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Virginie Lafage, Shian Liu, Renaud Lafage, Frank Schwab, Eric M. Massicotte, Tim Yoon, Christopher P. Ames, and Justin K Scheer
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  • 1 Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 2 University of Virginia; 
  • 3 Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 4 University of Washington; 
  • 5 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 6 Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 7 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery; 
  • 8 University of California, San Diego 

235. Outcomes of Intact Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures: Operative vs. Non-operative Treatment

Authors: Patrick W. Hitchon, Nader S. Dahdaleh, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Jennifer Noeller, Wenzhuan He, Toshio Moritani, and Kingsley O. Abode-Iyamah
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  • 1 University Of Iowa Hospitals; 
  • 2 Northwestern University; 
  • 3 University of Virginia; 
  • 4 Uiowa Department of Radiology; 
  • 5 University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic 

236. Bracing After Surgical Instrumentation of Thoracolumbar Fractures: A Systematic Review of Practices, Evidence and Indications

Authors: Jesse Skoch, Carmine Zoccali, Nikolay L. Martirosyan, Orel Zaninovich, Christina M. Walter, Philip Maykowski, and Ali A. Baaj
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  • 1 University of Arizona; 
  • 2 University of Arizona 

237. Safety of L4-5 Lateral Interbody Fusion via Minimally Invasive Lateral Transpsoas Approach: The Long Term Clinical Experience

Authors: Gisela Murray, Joshua Marshall Beckman, Konrad Bach, and Juan S. Uribe
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  • 1 University of South Florida; 
  • 2 University of South Florida; 
  • 3 University of South Florida - Division of Neurosurgery 

238. Can Triggered Electromyography Monitoring Throughout Retraction Predict Postoperative Symptomatic Neuropraxia after XLIF? Results from a Prospective Multicenter Trial

Authors: Juan S. Uribe, Jim A. Youssef, Robert E. Isaacs, and SOLAS Degenerative Study Group
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  • 1 University of South Florida - Division of Neurosurgery; 
  • 2 Duke University Medical Center 

239. Hip Flexion Weakness After XLIF

Authors: Juan S. Uribe, Jim A. Youssef, Robert E. Isaacs, and SOLAS Degenerative Study Group
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  • 1 University of South Florida - Division of Neurosurgery; 
  • 2 Duke University Medical Center 

240. The Effects of Cage Size on Motor and Sensory Nerve Function During the XLIF® Procedure: Preliminary Results from a Prospective, Multi-center Study

Authors: Robert E. Isaacs, Jim A. Youssef, Juan S. Uribe, and SOLAS Degenerative Study Group
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  • 1 Duke University Medical Center; 
  • 2 University of South Florida - Division of Neurosurgery 

241. Morbidity of Repeat Surgery for Recurrent Spinal Metastases Following Combined Separation Surgery and Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Authors: Vijay Yanamadala, Joseph Schwab, Kristina Shultz, Kevin Oh, and John H. Shin
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  • 1 Massachusetts General Hospital; 
  • 2 Massachusetts General Hospital 

242. Posterior Thoracic Corpectomies with Cage Reconstruction for Metastatic Spinal Tumors: Comparing the Mini-Open Approach to the Open Approach

Authors: Darryl Lau and Dean Chou
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  • 1 University of California, San Francisco; 
  • 2 University of California San Francisco 

243. Estimating Incremental Cost-Effectiveness of Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery Using the SRS-Scwhab Classification System

Authors: Chessie Robinson, Richard A. Hostin, Michael F. O'Brien, Christopher P. Ames, Frank Schwab, Justin S. Smith, Virginie Lafage, Munish Gupta, Eric Klineberg, Robert Hart, and Ian McCarthy
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  • 1 4708 Alliance Blvd; 
  • 2 Southwest Scoliosis Institute / Baylor Scoliosis Center; 
  • 3 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery; 
  • 4 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 5 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 6 University of California - Davis; Ortho Surgery; 
  • 7 University of California - Davis; 
  • 8 Ohsu Spine Center; 
  • 9 4708 Alliance Blvd. 

244. Surgical Outcomes for Minimally Invasive Versus Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF): An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Authors: Aaron J. Clark, Nickalus Khan, Siang Liao Lee, Garrett T. Venable, Nicholas Rossi, and Kevin T. Foley
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  • 1 Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute; 
  • 2 University of Tennessee Health Science Center; 
  • 3 University of Tennessee Health Science Center; 
  • 4 Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute 

245. Computer-assisted Navigation for Real Time Planning of Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy for Cervicothoracic Deformity Correction

Authors: Vijay Yanamadala, Thomas D. Cha, and John H. Shin
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  • 1 Massachusetts General Hospital; 
  • 2 Massachusetts General Hospital 

246. C-Arm Positioning is a Significant Source of Unnecessary Radiation Exposure

Authors: Elizabeth W Reiser, Sarah Byrd, Cary Idler, Robert E. Isaacs, Kris Radcliff, and Frank M. Phillips
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  • 1 Duke University Medical Center; 
  • 2 Duke University Hospital; 
  • 3 Duke University Medical Center; 
  • 4 Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush 

247. Comparative Biomechanics of Bryan and Pro-C Cervical Artificial Discs in a Caprine Model - Does Load Response Effect the Development of Heterotropic Ossificans?

Authors: Jamie Baisden, Gerald Eckardt, Joe Cochran, Frank A. Pintar, and Narayan Yoganandan
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  • 1 Medical College of Wisconsin; 
  • 2 Medical College of Wisconsin; 
  • 3 University of Texas at Houston Program; 
  • 4 Medical College of Wisconsin; 
  • 5 Medical College of Wisconsin 

248. Do MIS Deformity Interventions Result in Similar Reductions of Disability When Compared with Traditional Open Spinal Deformity Correction at 1 and 2 Years? A Propensity Matched Cohort Analysis

Authors: Kai-Ming G. Fu, Adam S. Kanter, Gregory Mundis, Paul Park, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Frank LaMarca, Michael Y. Wang, Juan S. Uribe, Richard G. Fessler, and Praveen V. Mummaneni
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  • 1 Weill Cornell Medical College; 
  • 2 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian; 
  • 3 San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders; 
  • 4 University Of Michigan, Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 5 University of Virginia; 
  • 6 University of Miami; 
  • 7 University of South Florida - Division of Neurosurgery; 
  • 8 University of California San Francisco Spine Center 

249. Simulated Long-Term Biomechanical Evaluation of Revision Surgical Techniques in the Event of Long Fusion Implant Failure

Authors: Seth Shawn Molloy, Karthik H. Madhavan, Jonathan Harris, Allan D. Levi, Mir Hussain, Sean Jenkins, Yiwei Cai, John Hao, and Brandon Bucklen
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  • 1 University of Miami - Miller School of Medicine; 
  • 2 University of Miami Hospital; 
  • 3 University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine; 
  • 4 Globus Medical, Inc.; 
  • 5 Globus Medical Inc. 

250. Does the Use of Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Fixation Lower the Rate of PJK and Reoperation for Proximal Junctional Failure (PJF)

Authors: Paul Park, Praveen V. Mummaneni, Gregory Mundis, Neel Anand, Juan S. Uribe, Michael Y. Wang, Adam S. Kanter, Richard G. Fessler, Stacie Nguyen, Christopher I. Shaffrey, and Kai-Ming G. Fu
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  • 1 University Of Michigan, Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 2 University of California San Francisco Spine Center; 
  • 3 San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders; 
  • 4 University of South Florida - Division of Neurosurgery; 
  • 5 University of Miami; 
  • 6 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian; 
  • 7 University of Virginia; 
  • 8 Weill Cornell Medical College 

251. The Clinical Correlation of the Hart-ISSG Proximal Junctional Kyphosis Severity Scale (PJKSS) with Health Related Quality of Life Outcomes and Need for Revision Surgery

Authors: Darryl Lau, Haruki Funao, Aaron J. Clark, Fred Nicholls, Justin S. Smith, Shay Bess, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Frank Schwab, Virginie Lafage, Vedat Deviren, Robert Hart, Khaled Kebaish, and Christopher P. Ames
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  • 1 University of California, San Francisco; 
  • 2 Johns Hopkins University; 
  • 3 Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute; 
  • 4 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 5 Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine Center; 
  • 6 University of Virginia; 
  • 7 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 8 Univeristy of California San Francisco; 
  • 9 Ohsu Spine Center; 
  • 10 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery 

252. Recovery Kinetics in 149 Adult Spinal Deformity Patients with 2-year Follow-up: The Effect of Complications and Reoperation Using an Area Under the Curve Analysis

Authors: Justin K Scheer, Gregory Mundis, Eric Klineberg, Robert Hart, Michael P Kelly, Vedat Deviren, Douglas C. Burton, Ian McCarthy, Shay Bess, Frank Schwab, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Virginie Lafage, Justin S. Smith, and Christopher P. Ames
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  • 1 University of California, San Diego; 
  • 2 San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders; 
  • 3 University of California - Davis; 
  • 4 Ohsu Spine Center; 
  • 5 Washington University; 
  • 6 Univeristy of California San Francisco; 
  • 7 4708 Alliance Blvd.; 
  • 8 Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine Center; 
  • 9 University of Virginia; 
  • 10 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 11 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 12 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery 

253. A Prospective, Multi-Center Matched and Unmatched Cohort Assessment of Outcomes for Operative and Nonoperative Treatment in Adult Spinal Deformity (ASD)

Authors: Tamir Ailon, Dominic Maggio, Justin S. Smith, Virginie Lafage, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Frank Schwab, Richard A. Hostin, Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, Justin K Scheer, Behrooz A. Akbarnia, Eric Klineberg, Munish Gupta, Vedat Deviren, Robert Hart, Douglas C. Burton, Shay Bess, and Christopher P. Ames
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  • 1 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 2 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 3 University of Virginia; 
  • 4 Southwest Scoliosis Institute / Baylor Scoliosis Center; 
  • 5 University of California, San Diego; 
  • 6 University of California - Davis; 
  • 7 University of California - Davis; Ortho Surgery; 
  • 8 Univeristy of California San Francisco; 
  • 9 Ohsu Spine Center; 
  • 10 Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine Center; 
  • 11 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery 

254. Biomechanical Comparison of Cortical Screws to Traditional Pedicle Screws with Immediate and Simulated Long-term Stabilization Results in a Lumbar Laminectomy Model

Authors: Kris Radcliff, Noelle F Klocke, Jonathan Harris, Yiwei Cai, Omar Elkassabany, John Hao, and Brandon Bucklen
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  • 1 Globus Medical, Inc; 
  • 2 Globus Medical Inc. 

255. Assessment of Impact of Long-Cassette Standing X-rays on Surgical Planning for Lumbar Pathology: An International Survey of Spine Surgeons

Authors: Justin S. Smith, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Virginie Lafage, Frank Schwab, Regis W. Haid, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Eric Klineberg, Justin K Scheer, Vedat Deviren, Robert Hart, Shay Bess, Paul M. Arnold, Jens Chapman, Michael G. Fehlings, and Christopher P. Ames
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  • 1 University of Virginia Health System; 
  • 2 University of Virginia; 
  • 3 NYU Langone Medical Center; 
  • 4 Atlanta Brain and Spine Care; 
  • 5 University of California - Davis; 
  • 6 University of California, San Diego; 
  • 7 Univeristy of California San Francisco; 
  • 8 Ohsu Spine Center; 
  • 9 Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine Center; 
  • 10 Department of Neurosurgery; 
  • 11 University of Washington; 
  • 12 Toronto Western Hospital; 
  • 13 University of California San Francisco Neuro Surgery 

256. Radiographic Fate of S2-Alar-Iliac Screws after 12-Month Minimum Follow-Up

Authors: Marcus D. Mazur, Mark Alexander Mahan, Lubdha Shah, and Andrew T. Dailey
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  • 1 University of Utah; 
  • 2 University of Utah 

257. Sacro-Iliac Joint Fusion with Two Different Minimally Invasive Techniques: Posterior vs. Trans-Articular. Biomechanical Analysis

Authors: Hector Enrique Soriano-Baron, Nestor Gregorio Rodriguez-Martinez, Eduardo Martinez del Campo Oviedo, Phillip M. Reyes, Anna Newcomb, Scott Yerby, Derek Lindsey, Nicholas Theodore, and Neil R. Crawford
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  • 1 National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery; 
  • 2 Hospital Hispano Americano; 
  • 3 Barrow Neurological Institute; 
  • 4 Barrow Neurological Institute; 
  • 5 Barrow Neurosurgical Associates, Ltd 

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Volume 38 (2015): Issue 3 (Mar 2015): Neurooncology: Update on Therapeutic Options

in Neurosurgical Focus
Cover Neurosurgical Focus
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A1–A25

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