Study Design. A new surgical strategy for treatment of patients with spinal metastases was
designed, and 61 patients were treated based on this strategy. Objectives. To propose a new …

Study Design. The study of seven patients with primary malignant or benign aggressive tumors
who underwent a new aggressive surgical technique termed" total en bloc spondylectomy…

A retrospective study was performed to evaluate the radiographic changes that occurred at
spinal levels adjacent to fused vertebrae after anterior cervical fusion. One hundred six …

Conventionally, curettage or piecemeal excision of vertebral tumors has been commonly
practiced. However, clear disadvantages of these approaches include a high risk of tumor cell …

Object Opinions vary widely as to the role of surgery (from none to wide margin excision) in
the management of spinal metastases. In this study the authors set out to ascertain if surgery …

Study Design. An in vitro biomechanical study of adjacent segment motion (at L3–L4 and L5–S1)
after a simulated lumbar interbody fusion of L4–L5 in different sagittal alignments was …

Study Design> Seven patients with angular kyphotic deformity of the thoracic or thoracolumbar
spine were treated by closing-opening wedge osteotomy using a single posterior …

Study Design. The authors developed a method of spinous process-splitting laminoplasty
using a threadwire saw in a prospective study of 25 patients with cervical myelopathy. This …

Study Design. Morphometric changes of the spinal cord and influence on spinal cord-evoked
potentials and spinal cord blood flow and postoperative function of hind limbs were studied …

The authors’ group has developed a new surgical technique of spondylectomy (vertebrectomy)
called “total en bloc spondylectomy” (TES). This technique is different from …