Background: It is widely accepted that postoperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis (AMP) is effective in reducing the risk of surgical site infections (SSI) following spinal surgery. After publication of the Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1999, a large number of studies confirmed the effectiveness of AMP. Due to the possible ...

introduction sub axial cervical spine dislocations are common and managing these cases by closed reduction is successful in the majority of cases. however, treatment of old and neglected cases is difficult and the results may vary in terms of neurological and functional outcomes. case presentation we present two cases of traumatic bilateral cervical facet dislocation with no neurological defici...

Nonoperative and operative management for early onset scoliosis has changed significantly since the Harrington era 50 plus years ago. Surgeons learned quickly that a spine fusion in growing child can result short thorax development of thoracic insufficiency syndrome. Techniques were developed refined over subsequent decades to allow spinal growth, control chest wall deformity, limit pulmonary d...

The Synthes Spine Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib (VEPTR) allows new growth sparing surgical procedures for treatment of spine deformity in early childhood. The prime FDA indication for its use is the presence of thoracic insufficiency syndrome [1], which is the inability of the thorax to support normal respiration or lung growth. This syndrome is most often due to three-dimensional...

Study Design Biomechanical study. Objective Posterior instrumentation is used to stabilize the spine after a lumbar laminectomy. However, the effects on the adjacent segmental stability are unknown. Therefore, we studied the range of motion (ROM) and stiffness of treated lumbar spinal segments and cranial segments after a laminectomy and after posterior instrumentation in flexion and extension ...