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Neurosurgical Focus

Curated by expert guest editors, and enhanced by color images and video clips, Neurosurgical Focus covers a different neurosurgery-related topic in depth online each month. Each issue constitutes a state-of-the-art “textbook” chapter in neurosurgery.
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Volume 46: Issue 1 (Jan 2019): Primary and Secondary Infections of the Spine: A Comprehensive Update

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Introduction. Primary and secondary infections of the spine

By: Doniel Drazin, Jens R. Chapman, Andrew Dailey and John Street
Spontaneous spondylodiscitis: review, incidence, management, and clinical outcome in 44 patients

By: Ghada Waheed, Mohamed A. R. Soliman, Ahmed M. Ali and Mohamed H. Aly
The effect of prophylactic vancomycin powder on infections following spinal surgeries: a systematic review

By: Vincent Dodson, Neil Majmundar, Vanessa Swantic and Rachid Assina
Parasitic infections of the spine: case series and review of the literature

By: Neil Majmundar, Purvee D. Patel, Vincent Dodson, Ashley Tran, Ira Goldstein and Rachid Assina
Infective endocarditis in patients with pyogenic spondylodiscitis: implications for diagnosis and therapy

By: Bedjan Behmanesh, Florian Gessler, Katrin Schnoes, Daniel Dubinski, Sae-Yeon Won, Jürgen Konczalla, Volker Seifert, Lutz Weise and Matthias Setzer
Editorial. Spinal infections: a growing problem, which deserves our urgent attention

By: Jens R. Chapman
The increasing frequency of intravenous drug abuse–associated spinal epidural abscesses: a case series

By: Anthony M. DiGiorgio, Rachel Stein, Kevin D. Morrow, Jared M. Robichaux, Clifford L. Crutcher II and Gabriel C. Tender
Editorial. Is the rise in spinal infections an unexpected consequence of the opioid epidemic?

By: Gina M. Many and Doniel Drazin
Anterior cervical spine surgery for the treatment of subaxial cervical spondylodiscitis: a report of 30 consecutive patients

By: Benedikt W. Burkhardt, Simon J. Müller, Anne-Catherine Wagner and Joachim M. Oertel
Outcomes of decompression and fusion for treatment of spinal infection

By: Nicholas Dietz, Mayur Sharma, Ahmad Alhourani, Beatrice Ugiliweneza, Dengzhi Wang, Miriam Nuño, Doniel Drazin and Maxwell Boakye
Insights into complication rates, reoperation rates, and healthcare utilization associated with use of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein–2 in patients with spine infections

By: Mayur Sharma, Nicholas Dietz, Ahmad Alhourani, Beatrice Ugiliweneza, Dengzhi Wang, Doniel Drazin and Maxwell Boakye
Single-approach vertebral osteosynthesis in the treatment of spinal osteolysis by spondylodiscitis

By: Oriela Rustemi, Fabio Raneri, Lorenzo Alvaro, Luca Gazzola, Giacomo Beggio, Ludovico Rossetto and Patrizio Cervellini

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