The aging of the global population: the changing epidemiology of disease and spinal disorders

MG Fehlings, L Tetreault, A Nater, T Choma… - …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
The global population is currently undergoing an upward shift in its age structure due to
decreasing fertility rates and increasing life expectancy. As a result, clinicians worldwide will be …

Survival and clinical outcomes in surgically treated patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression: results of the prospective multicenter AOSpine study

MG Fehlings, A Nater, L Tetreault, B Kopjar… - Journal of Clinical …, 2016 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Although surgery is used increasingly as a strategy to complement treatment with
radiation and chemotherapy in patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (…

Risk factors for recurrence of surgically treated conventional spinal schwannomas: analysis of 169 patients from a multicenter international database

MG Fehlings, A Nater, JJ Zamorano, LA Tetreault… - Spine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. A retrospective analysis of 169 adult patients operated for a conventional spinal
schwannoma from the AOSpine Multicenter Primary Spinal Tumors Database. Objective. …

MRI analysis of the combined prospectively collected AOSpine North America and International Data: the prevalence and spectrum of pathologies in a global cohort of …

A Nouri, AR Martin, L Tetreault, A Nater, S Kato… - Spine, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. An ambispective analysis. Objective. The aim of this study was to report the
global prevalence of specific degenerative cervical pathologies in patients with degenerative …

Management–spinal metastases

A Nater, A Sahgal, M Fehlings - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to a worldwide increase of cancer incidence and a longer life expectancy of patients
with metastatic cancer, a rise in the incidence of symptomatic vertebral metastases has been …

Changing the adverse event profile in metastatic spine surgery: an evidence-based approach to target wound complications and instrumentation failure

A Mesfin, DM Sciubba, N Dea, A Nater, JE Bird… - Spine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Systematic review. Objective. To identify risk factors and preventive methods
for wound complications and instrumentation failure after metastatic spine surgery. Summary …

Inter-rater reliability of the modified Japanese orthopedic association score in degenerative cervical myelopathy: a cross-sectional study

…, A Rienmueller, JH Badhiwala, MA Akbar, A Nater… - Spine, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Prospective cross-sectional blinded-assessor cohort study. Objective. The
aim of this study was to determine the inter-rater reliability of the modified Japanese …

Predictive factors of survival in a surgical series of metastatic epidural spinal cord compression and complete external validation of 8 multivariate models of survival in …

A Nater, LA Tetreault, B Kopjar, PM Arnold… - Cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND This study was designed to identify preoperative predictors of survival in
surgically treated patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC), to …

[HTML][HTML] Symptomatic spinal metastasis: a systematic literature review of the preoperative prognostic factors for survival, neurological, functional and quality of life in …

A Nater, AR Martin, A Sahgal, D Choi, MG Fehlings - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Purpose While several clinical prediction rules (CPRs) of survival exist for patients with
symptomatic spinal metastasis (SSM), these have variable prognostic ability and there is no …

Clinical and pathological outcomes after resection of intramedullary spinal cord tumors: a single-institution case series

N Samuel, L Tetreault, C Santaguida, A Nater… - Neurosurgical …, 2016 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify clinically relevant predictors of
progression-free survival and functional outcomes in patients who underwent surgery for …