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West J Med. 1989 June; 150(6): 685.
Internal Fixation of Degenerative Disease of the Lumbar Spine
Correspondence from Arthur H. White, MD and James B. Reynolds, MD

Justification of instrumentation in degenerative disease. Internet Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Related Subjects Issue 2 - 3 1997
K.- P. Schulitz Orthopaedic Department of Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany Correspondence: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter -Schulitz Heinrich Heine University Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery Moorenstr. 5 40225 Düsseldorf / Germany
Summary: a review of the philosophy behind the treatment of degenerative disorders...

Full Text article in Advances in Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation 2005 Vol 4 #6 p 38
Haden, Whitfield & Moore

Radiology, Vol 164, 83-88, Copyright © 1987
LM Teresi, RB Lufkin, MA Reicher, BJ Moffit, FV Vinuela, GM Wilson, JR Bentson and WN Hanafee
Evidence on magnetic resonance (MR) images of disk degeneration and herniation, as well as of cord and root impingement, may be regarded either as normal, age-related changes...

In this SpineUniverse patient case presented by Dr. Michael Kaiser, neruosurgeon, Columbia University in New York, NY the patient underwent an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C5-C6 and C6-C7 with PEEK/BMP interbody grafting and anterior plate stabilization. Dr. Gerard Girasole, orthopedic surgeon offers a case review.  Each...

J R Army Med Corps 2003; 149: 260-264 Y Bar-Dayan, M Weisbort,Y Bar-Dayan, GJ Velan, M Ravid, D Hendel, J Shemer
Parachuting, be it static line or sky- diving, places enormous stresses on the human spine. It is, therefore, important to determine the prevalence and severity of degenerative changes in the lumbar spine of subjects who...

The patient is a 55-year-old male, requiring pre-operative evaluation before back surgery. Quiz format.

Site by Yasser Metwally, Professor of neurology, Ain Shams university, Cairo, Egypt.
Illustrated account with references.

A number of pathologic changes have been reported in spinal surgery specimens. The frequency of many of these is not well defined. We retrospectively reviewed the histologic features of 985 extradural spinal surgery specimens. Of the cases, 1.6% were identified clinically as synovial cysts. In addition, synovial tissue was seen in...

The final common pathway of the degenerative cascade is the degenerated motion segment affecting both the intervertebral disc and the posterior elements with end-stage pial stenosis. Since the process has many different stages a standard surgical strategy is not applicable. It is thus imperative to match the treatment to the...

Search string allintitle: (degenerative (disease OR spondylitis OR disorder)) OR osteoarthritis spine -disc Returned 367 results August 2007

Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2007; 5: 71.
Karen L Saban, Sue M Penckofer, Ida Androwich, and Fred B Bryant
Over 500,000 spinal surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Although pain relief and improved health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are expectations following lumbar spinal surgery, there is limited research regarding this...

Hip-Spine Syndrome: The Effect of Total Hip Replacement Surgery on Low Back Pain in Severe Osteoarthritis of the Hip Posted 09/20/2007
Spine. 2007;32(19):2099-2102
Peleg Ben-Galim, MD; Tal Ben-Galim, MD; Nahshon Rand, MD; Amir Haim, MD; John Hipp, PhD; Shmuel Dekel, MD, PhD; Yizhar Floman, MD
Conclusion: Both LBP and spinal function were improved...

The following search string searches the NLM PubMed site for articles with degenerative disease of the spine in the title - allintitle: site:www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (degenerative (disease OR spondylitis OR disorder)) OR osteoarthritis spine -disc
26 articles August 2007

This study examines prospectively the randomised, long-term, clinical and radiological results of the treatment of spondylitis patients by ventro-dorsal or ventral spine fusion. Group 1 consisted of 12 patients who (after ventral removal of the focus of infection and autologous bone grafting) were treated by dorsal instrumentation. Group 2 consisted...