American Association of Neurological Surgeons / Congress of Neurological Surgeons (AANS/CNS) Joint Section Abstracts

Low Back Degenerative

• A Comparison of Microdiscectomy to Microendoscopic Discectomy
  
• A Randomized, Prospective, Blinded, Placebo Controlled Trial of Epidural Analgesia During Lumbar Discectomy
• An Introduction to Open Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF); Indications, Approaches, Techniques, and Nursing Care
• Anterior Lumbar lnterbody Fusion Utilizing The AO Titanium Interbody Spacer (TIS)
• Clinical Experience of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in 40 Cases of Vertebral Body Collapse
• Comparison of Instrumented Anterior and Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusions with Posterolateral Lumbar Fusions Using Pedicle Fixation For Management of Mechanical Back Pain
• Development and Testing of a Novel Cortical Allograft Wedge for Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
  
• Dynamic Cervical Plates: Do They Load Share at the Expense of Stability?
• Impacted PLIF: Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Machined, Pre–sized Allograft
• Instrumented Fusion in the Management of Post–laminectomy Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
• Midline Sparing Bilateral PLIF with Single Side Plate/Contralateral Cage Stabilization
• Minimally Invasive 360 Degree Instrumented Lumbar Fusion
• PLIF with Allograft Bone: Preliminary Results Comparing Cylindrical Dowels and Impacted Wedges
• Robotically Assisted Laparoscopic Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
• Segmental Stability and Compressive Strength of Posterior Lumbar Interbodey Fusion Implants
• Single Stage Anterior Cervical Reconstruction with Harms Titanium Mesh Cages, Local Bone Graft, and Plating
• The Anatomic Background of Low–Back Pain
• The New Zealand White Rabbit as a Kinematic Model of the Human Lumbar Spine
  
• The Surgical Management of Lumbar Disc Disease with Neurological Deficits During Pregnancy
• The Use of lntraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring During Anterior and Posterior Lumbar lnterbody Fusions
• Percutaneous Polymethylmethacrylate Vertebroplasty In the Treatment of Osteoporotic Thoracic and Lumbar Vertebral Compression Fractures: Early Outcome of 159 Patients
• The Surgical Management of Lumbar Disc Disease with Neurological Deficits During Pregnancy
• Preliminary Followup of Impacted Posterior Lumbar lnterbody Fusion (PLIF)
• Far–Lateral Approach to Lumbar Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
• Volumes of Degenerated Lumbar Intervertebral Disks Determined From Volumetric Image Analysis
• The Increase in Spinal Canal Area After Inverse Laminoplasty
• A Prospective Study of Calcium Sulfate Pellets as Bone Graft Extenders in Lumbar Posterolateral Arthrodesis
• Long–term Efficacy of GRAF Soft Fixation and PLIF with Cages in Multiple Spondylotic Stenosis in Lumbar Spine
• Retroperitoneal Approach for Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion and Combined Anteroposterior Lumbar Fusion
• Multilevel Corpectomy Strut Graft Can Be Stabilized By Appropriate Reconstruction and Plating
• Microsurgical Decompression of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Two Methods
• IDET and PED: Benefits of Combination Treatment
• Use of Autologous Growth Factors in Lumbar Spinal Fusion
• Outcomes Assesment in Military Patients After Ultrarigid Lumbar Spinal Fusion
• A Preliminary Report on the FRA Spacer: Uniform Allograft for Anterior Interbody Fusion of the Lumbar Spine
• Lumbar Spondylolisthesis and Stenosis Treated with Interbody Fusion Cages: A Five Year Experience
• Clinical Experience with the Z–plate for Management of Fractures of the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine

Cervical

• A Biomechanical Study to Assess the Affect Of Cervical Spine Posture on the Axial Load Bearing Ability
• Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy for Radiculopathy
  
• Anterior Cervical Fusion with Cages
• Aspiration and Reduced Cough Strength in Cervical Surgery Patients
  
• Biomechanical Comparison of Anterior Cervical Plating and Combined Anterior/Lateral Mass Plating
• Cervical Spinal Motion during lntubation: Efficacy of Stabilization Maneuvers in the Setting of Complete Segmental Instability
• Cervical Interbody Cage Fixation through Microscope
• Cervical Pedicle Screws: Comparative Accuracy of Two Insertion Techniques
• Clinical Experience of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in 40 Cases of Vertebral Body Collapse
• Clinical Experience with a New Load Sharing Dynamic Anterior Cervical Plate
• Correction of Chronic Progressive Cervical Deformity: An Assessment of 74 Consecutive Cases
• Cost Advantages of Two–Level Anterior Cervical Fusion with Rigid Internal Fixation for Radiculopathy and Degenerative Disease
• Degenerative Diseases of the Spine Lecture: Cervical Spine Clinical Presentation
• Early Clinical Outcomes with Kyphoplasty, the Minimally Invasive Reduction and Fixation of Painful Osteoporotic Vertebral Body Compression Fracture VCF
• Evaluation of a Monocortical Screw for Anterior Cervical Fusion and Plating
• Evaluation of Open Door Expansile Laminoplasties using Titanium Miniplates for Treatment of Cervical Stenosis
• Failure and Complication Rates of Anterior Instrumentation in Patients Undergoing Cervical Corpectomy Decompression
• Instability of the Craniovertebral Junction and Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Down's syndrome
  
• Intraoperative Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring May Decrease Complications in Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery
• Kinematic Comparison of Normal, Fused and Disc Replacement Cervical Spines in the Chimpanzee
• Management of Acute Odontoid Fractures with Single–Screw Anterior Fixation
• Microsurgical Wedge–Corpectomy Without Bone Grafting for Cervical Spondylosis with Myeloathy or Radiculopathy; Experience with Fifty–Eight Operated Levels
• Midline T–Saw Laminoplasty for the Management of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy:
• Molecular Mechanisms of Programmed Cell Death in Human Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
• Multidisciplinary Treatment of Cervical Spinal Cord Vascular Fistulae and Malformations: Experience Over 16 years
• Oblique Cervical Wiring: Technique Modification with Biomechanical Failure Testing
• Occipitocervical Reconstruction with the OMI Loop: Results of a Multicenter Evaluation
• Posterior Spinal Fixation for Disorders of the Cervico–Thoracic Junction
• Prospective Study of Microsurgical Anterior Foramenotom@ for Cervical Radiculopathy
• Preliminary Results Using A New Anterior Hybrid Cervical Plate System
• Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Stimulation Increases Multilevel Cervical Fusion Rates
• Thoracoscopic surgical Resection of Thoracic Neurogenic Tumors
• Treatment of Severe Cervical Spondylosis via Combined Anterior and Posterior (360 degree) Decompression and Fusion: Initial Results
• Virtual Fluoroscopy for Cervical Spine Surgery
• Treatment of Chronic Traumatic Atlanto–axial Rotatory Subluxation in an Adult
• Improvement of Cervical Sagittal Angulation Using Dynamic Stabilization Implant
• Surgical Outcome After Transoral Odontoidectomy and Occipitocervical Fusion for Basilar Impression
• Early Experience With the 'Cervifix' Modular Tension System
• "Skip" Corpectomies for Anterior Cervical Decompression: Technical Note
• C1–C2 Transarticular Screw Fixation for Atianto–Axial Instability: A Six Year Experience
• A Case Review of Intradiscal Depomedrol and Bupivicaine for Treating Refractory Spine Pain

Trauma

• Comparison of Instrumented Anterior and Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusions with Posterolateral Lumbar Fusions Using Pedicle Fixation For Management of Mechanical Back Pain
  
• Effect of Timing of Decompression on Neurological Outcome Following Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
• Magnetic Resonance Neurography of Sciatic Nerve Following Crush Injury, and Correlation with Functional Deficit
• Occipitocervical Reconstruction with the OMI Loop: Results of a Multicenter Evaluation
• The Treatment of Posterior Wound Complication with Myocutaneous Flaps in Cancer Patients
• Treatment of Chronic Traumatic Atlanto–axial Rotatory Subluxation in an Adult
• Improvement of Cervical Sagittal Angulation Using Dynamic Stabilization Implant
• Surgical Outcome After Transoral Odontoidectomy and Occipitocervical Fusion for Basilar Impression
• The Effect of Timing of Surgery in Spinal Cord Injury on Non–neurologic Outcome
• Traumatic Thoracic Spine Fracture Dislocation with Minimal or No Cord Injury
• Comparison of Anterolateral, Lateral Extracavitary and Bilateral Transpedicular Approaches to Thoracolumbar Spine Reconstruction
• Use of Titanium Mesh and Vertebral Autograft in the Reconstruction of Anterior Spinal Column
• Surgical Technique and Results of Anterior Decompression and Fusion for Ossification of Cervical Posterior Longitudinal Ligament
• Fluoroscopically Visible Vertebral Fracture Instability Observed During Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
• Provocative Annulography for the Diagnosis of Outer Annular Lesions
• Management of Unstable Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures Using a Titanium Mesh Cage and the Kanada System: A Report of 21 Cases
• Surgical Management of Patients with Multiple Thoracic Herniated Disks: Analysis of Seven Cases with 18–month Follow–up
• Percutaneous Vertebroplasty of Vertebra Plana
• Clinical Experience with the Z–plate for Management of Fractures of the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine

Tumor

• Spinal Brachytherapy with 1125 for Malignant Tumors
  
• Surgical Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma of the Spine
• Far–Lateral Approach to Lumbar Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
• Early Experience With the 'Cervifix' Modular Tension System
• The Surgical Management of Craniocervical Junction Tumors Involving the Occipital Condyle

Deformity

• Clinical Analysis of 102 Patients with Spondylolisthesis
• Correction of Chronic Progressive Cervical Deformity: An Assessment of 74 Consecutive Cases
• The Tethered Cord Syndrome: Urodynamic Evidence of Improved Outcome With Early Untethering
• Microsurgical Wedge–Corpectomy Without Bone Grafting for Cervical Spondylosis with Myeloathy or Radiculopathy; Experience with Fifty–Eight Operated Levels
• Volumes of Degenerated Lumbar Intervertebral Disks Determined From Volumetric Image Analysis
• The Increase in Spinal Canal Area After Inverse Laminoplasty
• A Prospective Study of Calcium Sulfate Pellets as Bone Graft Extenders in Lumbar Posterolateral Arthrodesis
• Long–term Efficacy of GRAF Soft Fixation and PLIF with Cages in Multiple Spondylotic Stenosis in Lumbar Spine
• Retroperitoneal Approach for Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion and Combined Anteroposterior Lumbar Fusion
• Multilevel Corpectomy Strut Graft Can Be Stabilized By Appropriate Reconstruction and Plating
• Comparison of Anterolateral, Lateral Extracavitary and Bilateral Transpedicular Approaches to Thoracolumbar Spine Reconstruction
• Use of Titanium Mesh and Vertebral Autograft in the Reconstruction of Anterior Spinal Column
• Circumferential Approaches for the Correction of Occipitocervical and Subaxial Deformity

Instrumentation and Technology

• A Comparison of Microdiscectomy to Microendoscopic Discectomy
• A Different Approach to Posterior Spinal Instrumentation
• Anterior Lumbar lnterbody Fusion Utilizing The AO Titanium Interbody Spacer (TIS)
  
• Application–Specific Accuracy Requirements for Image Guided Spinal Surgery
• Biomechanical Assessment of Hydroxyapetite Vertebroplasty in Cadaveric Compression Fractures
• Biomechanical Comparison of Anterior Cervical Plating and Combined Anterior/Lateral Mass Plating
• Biomechanical Comparison of Anterior versus Transverse Threaded Fusion Cages
• Cervical Pedicle Screws: Comparative Accuracy of Two Insertion Techniques
• Clinical Experience of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in 40 Cases of Vertebral Body Collapse
• Clinical Experience with a New Load Sharing Dynamic Anterior Cervical Plate
• Comparison of Clinical Outcome: Posterolateral Fusion with Transpedicular Screw Fixation and Cage
• Comparison of Instrumented Anterior and Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusions with Posterolateral Lumbar Fusions Using Pedicle Fixation For Management of Mechanical Back Pain
• Development and Testing of a Novel Cortical Allograft Wedge for Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
• Discography in Failed Back Syndrome
• Early Clinical Outcomes with Kyphoplasty, the Minimally Invasive Reduction and Fixation of Painful Osteoporotic Vertebral Body Compression Fracture VCF
• Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy
• Evaluation of a Monocortical Screw for Anterior Cervical Fusion and Plating
• Evaluation of Open Door Expansile Laminoplasties using Titanium Miniplates for Treatment of Cervical Stenosis
• Failure and Complication Rates of Anterior Instrumentation in Patients Undergoing Cervical Corpectomy Decompression
• Fluoroscopic Guided Targeting System with a Robotic Arm for Pedicle Screw Insertion
• Impacted PLIF: Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Machined, Pre–sized Allograft
• In Vitro Evaluation of Self–Centering Pedicle Screws Using Computer–Aided Surgery Techniques
• Increased Pedicle Screw Pullout Strength with Vertebroplasty Pedicle Augmentation
• Magnetic Resonance Neurography of Sciatic Nerve Following Crush Injury, and Correlation with Functional Deficit
• Midline Sparing Bilateral PLIF with Single Side Plate/Contralateral Cage Stabilization
• Oblique Cervical Wiring: Technique Modification with Biomechanical Failure Testing
• Outcomes and Complications of 179 Thoracoscopic Approaches to the Thoracic Spine
• Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Stimulation Increases Multilevel Cervical Fusion Rates
• Pyogenic Spine Infections – New Perspectives
• Radiation Exposure During Fluoroscopically–Assisted Pedicle Screw Insertion
• Robotically Assisted Laparoscopic Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
• Segmental Stability and Compressive Strength of Posterior Lumbar Interbodey Fusion Implants
• Single Stage Anterior Cervical Reconstruction with Harms Titanium Mesh Cages, Local Bone Graft, and Plating
• Surgical Anatomy of the C2 Pedicle
• Percutaneous Polymethylmethacrylate Vertebroplasty In the Treatment of Osteoporotic Thoracic and Lumbar Vertebral Compression Fractures: Early Outcome of 159 Patients
• Preliminary Results Using A New Anterior Hybrid Cervical Plate System
• Prospective Randomized Multi–Center Clinical Trial of Cervical Fusion Cages
• The Treatment of Posterior Wound Complication with Myocutaneous Flaps in Cancer Patients
• The Use of lntraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring During Anterior and Posterior Lumbar lnterbody Fusions
• Thoracoscopic surgical Resection of Thoracic Neurogenic Tumors
• Transthoracic Video Assisted Endoscopic Discectomy
• Treatment of Severe Cervical Spondylosis via Combined Anterior and Posterior (360 degree) Decompression and Fusion: Initial Results
• Virtual Fluoroscopy for Cervical Spine Surgery
• Virtual Fluoroscopy: Multiplanar X–Ray Guidance with Minimal Radiation Exposure
• Far–Lateral Approach to Lumbar Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
• Volumes of Degenerated Lumbar Intervertebral Disks Determined From Volumetric Image Analysis
• The Increase in Spinal Canal Area After Inverse Laminoplasty
• A Prospective Study of Calcium Sulfate Pellets as Bone Graft Extenders in Lumbar Posterolateral Arthrodesis
• Long–term Efficacy of GRAF Soft Fixation and PLIF with Cages in Multiple Spondylotic Stenosis in Lumbar Spine
• Retroperitoneal Approach for Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion and Combined Anteroposterior Lumbar Fusion
• Multilevel Corpectomy Strut Graft Can Be Stabilized By Appropriate Reconstruction and Plating
• Microsurgical Decompression of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Two Methods
• IDET and PED: Benefits of Combination Treatment
• Use of Autologous Growth Factors in Lumbar Spinal Fusion
• Outcomes Assesment in Military Patients After Ultrarigid Lumbar Spinal Fusion
• A Preliminary Report on the FRA Spacer: Uniform Allograft for Anterior Interbody Fusion of the Lumbar Spine
• Lumbar Spondylolisthesis and Stenosis Treated with Interbody Fusion Cages: A Five Year Experience
• Improvement of Cervical Sagittal Angulation Using Dynamic Stabilization Implant
• Surgical Outcome After Transoral Odontoidectomy and Occipitocervical Fusion for Basilar Impression
• Early Experience With the 'Cervifix' Modular Tension System
• "Skip" Corpectomies for Anterior Cervical Decompression: Technical Note
• C1–C2 Transarticular Screw Fixation for Atianto–Axial Instability: A Six Year Experience
• A Case Review of Intradiscal Depomedrol and Bupivicaine for Treating Refractory Spine Pain
• Comparison of Anterolateral, Lateral Extracavitary and Bilateral Transpedicular Approaches to Thoracolumbar Spine Reconstruction
• Use of Titanium Mesh and Vertebral Autograft in the Reconstruction of Anterior Spinal Column
• Surgical Technique and Results of Anterior Decompression and Fusion for Ossification of Cervical Posterior Longitudinal Ligament
• Fluoroscopically Visible Vertebral Fracture Instability Observed During Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
• Provocative Annulography for the Diagnosis of Outer Annular Lesions
• Management of Unstable Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures Using a Titanium Mesh Cage and the Kanada System: A Report of 21 Cases
• Surgical Management of Patients with Multiple Thoracic Herniated Disks: Analysis of Seven Cases with 18–month Follow–up
• Percutaneous Vertebroplasty of Vertebra Plana
• The Surgical Management of Craniocervical Junction Tumors Involving the Occipital Condyle
• Circumferential Approaches for the Correction of Occipitocervical and Subaxial Deformity
• Adaptation of Therapies Established in Clinical Neurosurgery to an Endangered Species
• Utilization of Autogenous Blood Products for Spine Surgery
• Anterior Discectomy and Fusion With BAK: The First 225 Patients
• Clinical Experience with the Z–plate for Management of Fractures of the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine

Other

• A Different Approach to Posterior Spinal Instrumentation
• Blinded Outcome Assessment Versus Operating Surgeon's Evaluation of Chronic Iliac Donor Site Pain
• Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transduced with an Adenoviral Vector Carrying the Gene for Human BMP–2 Can Induce Anterior Spinal Fusion
• Discography in Failed Back Syndrome
• Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy
• Posterior Spinal Fixation for Disorders of the Cervico–Thoracic Junction
• Pyogenic Spine Infections – New Perspectives
• Radiation Exposure During Fluoroscopically–Assisted Pedicle Screw Insertion
• Sensory and Motor Axonal Response to Immunosuppression Withdrawal in Long Peripheral Nerve Allografts
• Surgical Outcome and Management of Median Nerve Lesions
• Sensory Ganglionectomy Versus Rhizotomy: Theory, Technical Aspects and Clinical Experience
• The Tethered Cord Syndrome: Urodynamic Evidence of Improved Outcome With Early Untethering
• The Treatment of Posterior Wound Complication with Myocutaneous Flaps in Cancer Patients
• Transthoracic Video Assisted Endoscopic Discectomy
• Use of Intensive Care Units for Patients with Spinal Disorders
• Virtual Fluoroscopy: Multiplanar X–Ray Guidance with Minimal Radiation Exposure

• 360° And Posterior Spinal Fusion Segmental Biomechanics: A Cadaveric Model
• A Biomechanical and Sem Analysis on Repetitive Use of Spinal Screws
• Anterior Lumbar lnterbody Fusion Utilizing Titanium Mesh Cages and Coralline Hydroxyapatite
• Anterior Single Solid Rod Instrumentation in Thoracolumbar Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis With and Without the Use of Interbody Structural Support

• Complex Pediatric Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity: Neurosurgical Management
• Delayed Epidural Hematomas after Spinal Surgery
• lnterbody Fusion for Disk Disease Following Discectomy
• Interbody Fusion with Transpedicular Screw Fixation in Adult Spondylolisthesis
• Lateral Extrapedicular Screw Fixation in the Thoracic Spine
• Large Magnitude Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Anterior vs. Posterior Surgical Stabilization
• Microscopic Anterior Lumbar lnterbody Fusion for Lumbar Radiculopathy
• Peripheral Nerve Injury in Modern Warfare
• Posterior Spinal Fusion versus 360° Fusion in a Calf Spine Model: A Biomechanical Analysis of Motion at the Instrumented and Adjacent Unistrumented Segments
• The "Crank shaft" phenomenon : Treatment options and complexity when growth is completed
• The Natural History of Vertical C2 Body Fractures
• Transition Zone Syndrome: Iatrogenic Instability or Natural History?
• Reinnervation of the Rat Biceps Brachii Muscle through the Cellular and Acellular Nerve Grafts Introduced into the Ventral Horn of the Spinal Cord
• Thoracic Pedicle vs Pedicle / Rib screw Fixation : A Biomechanical Study
• Spinal Resources on the Internet – An Extensive Review
• A Case Review of Intradiscal Depomedrol and Bupivicaine for Treating Refractory Spine Pain
• Percutaneous Vertebroplasty of Vertebra Plana
• Adaptation of Therapies Established in Clinical Neurosurgery to an Endangered Species
• Utilization of Autogenous Blood Products for Spine Surgery
• Anterior Discectomy and Fusion With BAK: The First 225 Patients
• Biomechanical and Electrophysiological Characterization of the Intact and Injured Peripheral Nerve