Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comment CT images were reconstructed by using weighted filtered back-projection and iterative metal artifact reduction. Two neuroradiologists evaluated images in the region of spinal hardware and assigned a score for the visualization of critical anatomic structures
Oner FC, Vaccaro A, guest eds. Vialle LR, ed. Cervical Spine Trauma. AOSpine Masters Series; vol. 5. Thieme; 2015; 146 pp; 109 ill; $119.99 The latest issue of the AO (Arbeitmeinshaft Für Osteosynthesefragen) Spine Masters Series deals with cervical spine trauma
Review by: Dr. James Fernandez and Dr. Sepand Salehian Click to listen to the accompanying podcast (discussion of this article begins at 19:15) A group of 75 asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic for low back pain were enrolled in a study for provocative
Kim DH, Sengupta DK, Cammis Jr FP, Yoon DH, Fessler RG, eds. Dynamic Reconstruction of the Spine. 2nd ed. Thieme; 2015; 480 pp; 661 ill; $249.99 For those radiologists who are part of a large spine surgery center where significant spine
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comment Previously only defined by postmortem analysis, the use of flat panel catheter angiotomography allows definition of spinal cord transmedullary venous anastomoses. Summary Flat panel catheter angiotomography, a recently developed angiographic technique, offers a spinal equivalent
Editor’s Choice March 2015 (3 of 3) Eighty lumbar and 9 cervical spine herniations were treated with percutaneous intradiskal injection of gelified ethanol under fluoroscopy with 36 injections made simultaneously for 2 disk herniations. Post treatment symptom improvement was reported
Please check out the accompanying podcast of this blog post: 1. Perilli E, Parkinson IH, Truong L-H, Chong KC, Fazzalari NL, Osti OL. Modic (endplate) changes in the lumbar spine: bone micro-architecture and remodelling. Eur Spine J. 2014. doi:10.1007/s00586-014-3455-z. The
PRESS RELEASE February 26, 2015 The American Society of Spine Radiology Presents 2015 Gold Medal to Victor M. Haughton, M.D. during 2015 Annual Symposium The American Society of Spine Radiology (ASSR) presented the Society’s 2015 Gold Medal to Victor M.
A recent review of Medicare billing claims from 1991 through 2011 has verified what many of us anecdotally know to be true. While the data only account for fee-for-service Medicare patients, the analysis by Kroll and colleagues found a substantial
