the online home of Dr. Evan D. O'Brien, providing spinal surgery and pain management services to patients in the New Jersey/Philadelphia metropolitan area. Dr. O'Brien is a board-certified surgeon specializing in the complete and comprehensive medical and surgical treatment of the spine from diagnosis through recovery. Areas of specialty include...

Dr. O'Brien treats all types of spinal conditions of the neck and back including, disc herniation, radiculopathy or radiculitis with radiating arm pain or radiating leg pain -- sciatica, degenerative disc disease, low back pain, stenosis, spondylolisthesis, spondylolysis and pars interarticularis defects, myelopathy, neurogenic claudication, instability, deformity, scoliosis, tumors, vertebral compression or burst fractures from trauma...

J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1987 Mar;69(2):179-82. The rib deformity in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. A prospective study to evaluate changes after Harrington distraction and posterior fusion.Weatherley CR, Draycott V, O'Brien JF, Benson DR, Gopalakrishnan KC, Evans JH, O'Brien JP. A prospective study to investigate changes in the rib hump or rib...

The glenoid labrum is a triangular fibrocartilaginous structure that serves to deepen the glenoid. While tears of the anteroinferior labrum have long been known to be associated with significant shoulder pathology, injuries of the superior labrum have really only been appreciated as a potential pathological lesion since the advent of...

Surgery for osteitis pubis Ramin Mehin, MD; Robert Meek, MD; Peter O'Brien, MD; Piotr Blachut, MD Can J Surg 2006;49(3):170-6 Background: Osteitis pubis is a rare and self-limited condition. Surgery may be necessary in 5%-10% of cases. The outcome after surgery for osteitis pubis is not known. Methods: To determine the success of surgical...

Background: Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH), described by O'Brien and Stout in 1964, is the most common soft tissue sarcoma of late adult life. Pathophysiology: Uncertain histogenesis and numerous subtypes make MFH a rather controversial entity. Researchers have postulated both histiocytic and primitive mesenchymal cell theories of origin. In general, the tumor...

SOSORT consensus paper: school screening for scoliosis: Where are we today? Theodoros B Grivas , Marian H Wade , Stefano Negrini , Joseph P O'Brien , Toru Maruyama , Martha C Hawes , Manuel Rigo , Hans Rudolf Weiss , Tomasz Kotwicki , Elias S Vasiliadis , Lior Neuhaus Sulam ...

Operative Management of Scheuermann's Kyphosis in 78 Patients: Outcomes, Complications, and Technique Paper No: 340 Thursday, March 23, 2006 05:12 PM - 05:18 PM Location: McCormick Place N426 Baron Lonner, MD New York NY (a - DePuy) Thomas G Lowe, MD (a - DePuy) Peter O Newton, MD San Diego CA...

The transformation of spinal curvature into spinal deformity: pathological processes and implications for treatment Martha C Hawes and Joseph P O'Brien Scoliosis 2006, 1:3 doi:10.1186/1748-7161-1-3 Published 31 March 2006 This review summarizes what is known about the pathological processes (e.g. structural and functional changes),...

J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1980 May;62-B(2):155-7. Scoliosis in symptomatic spondylolisthesis.McPhee IB, O'Brien JP. The association between spondylolisthesis and scoliosis was studied in 84 patients who presented during a 30-year period with symptomatic spondylolisthesis. The incidence of scoliosis was 42 per cent, the majority of cases being lumbar or thoracolumbar...

OTA 2002 - Session 7 Session VII - Tibia Sat., 10/12/02 Tibia, Paper #45, 4:18 PM *The Effect of Human Recombinant Bone Morphogenic Protein (RHBMP-7) on the Healing of Open Tibial Shaft Fractures: Results of a Multi-Center, Prospective, Randomized Clinical Trial Michael D. McKee, MD, FRCS(C) ; Emil H. Schemitsch, MD, FRCS(C);...

J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1981;63B(4):529-34. Links Immunofluorescent staining for collagen and proteoglycan in normal and scoliotic intervertebral discs.Beard HK, Roberts S, O'Brien JP. Specific antisera to collagen Types I, II and III and proteoglycan were used to investigate the distributions of these molecules in normal human intervertebral discs. Immunofluorescent staining indicated...