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The Legal Ramifications of Spinal Care Medical Malpractice and Its Implications for Spinal Surgery
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.020
A brief review of the conflicting desires of a medical profession's desire to be relieved of the burden of malpractice litigation in the context of the constitutional framework of the American legal s...
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James Ghadially
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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30 January 2012 |
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Spinal Care: What Measurements Should be Used to Define Value to Society?
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.017
Evidence-based approaches to the treatment of spinal pathology are needed as the field evolves. Patient-reported outcomes have become the standard by which therapeutic success is defined. There are 4 ...
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Kathryn J. McCarthy,
Leah Y. Carreon,
Steven D. Glassman
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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24 January 2012 |
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The Latest Lessons Learned from Retrieval Analyses of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, Metal-on-Metal, and Alternative Bearing Total Disc Replacements
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.011
Knowledge regarding the in vivo performance and periprosthetic tissue response of cervical and lumbar total disc replacements (TDRs) continues to expand. This review addresses the following 4 main que...
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Steven M. Kurtz,
Jeffrey M. Toth,
Ryan Siskey,
Lauren Ciccarelli,
Daniel MacDonald,
Jorge Isaza,
Todd Lanman,
Ilona Punt,
Marla Steinbeck,
Jan Goffin,
André van Ooij
et al.
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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16 January 2012 |
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Regulatory Challenges in Getting Total Disc Replacements Onto the Market in an Era of Increased Food and Drug Administration Scrutiny
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.012
The growing list of total disc replacements attempts to give options and variability to surgeons while treating degenerative disc disease. However, despite surgeon and patient interest, their path to ...
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Glenn Stiegman,
Kevin B. McGowan
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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16 January 2012 |
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The Argument for Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion Over Total Disk Replacement
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.002
Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion is one of the most commonly performed cervical spine procedures with historically excellent results. In an effort to preserve segmental motion and prevent adjac...
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Jeremy S. Smith,
Melvin D. Helgeson,
Todd J. Albert
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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16 January 2012 |
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ProDisc-C Cervical Disk Arthroplasty
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.003
ProDisc-C cervical disc arthroplasty is a prosthesis that has a cobalt chrome/polyethylene bearing surface and is semi-constrained. It was developed based on the design of the ProDisc-L lumbar disc ar...
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Bruce V. Darden
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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05 January 2012 |
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Lessons Learned After 9 Years' Clinical Experience with 3 Different Nucleus Replacement Devices
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.009
Nucleus replacement devices have been developed with the goal of treating moderate forms of degenerative disk disease, trying to fill the gap between discectomy and fusion. This is a retrospective ana...
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Luiz Pimenta,
Luis Marchi,
Etevaldo Coutinho,
Leonardo Oliveira
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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05 January 2012 |
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Postoperative Imaging of Spinal Disk Arthroplasty Devices
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.010
Cervical and lumbar arthroplasty is being increasingly used over the past decade for the management of degenerative spinal disease with multiple varied devices available worldwide. As more experience ...
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Lali H. Sekhon
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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03 January 2012 |
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Spinal Care in a Single-Payer System: The Canadian Example
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.018
This article provides a general understanding of the fundamental differences between the Canadian and United States health care systems and how they may relate to spine care. Issues regarding sustaina...
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Raja Rampersaud,
Kevin Macwan,
Nizar N. Mahomed
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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03 January 2012 |
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Reoperations and Complications of Failed Lumbar Total Disk Replacement
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.008
Advancements in lumbar total disk replacement (TDR) and motion preserving technology have become more prevalent. With the clinical application of these devices, complications and failures will need to...
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Paul C. McAfee,
Behnam Salari,
Sameer Saiedy
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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03 January 2012 |
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Defining the Value of Spine Care to Society
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.014
Defining value in spine surgery increasingly considers the patient's perspective, a task that requires quantifying outcomes using validated, patient-derived outcome instruments. Both general and disea...
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Christopher K. Kepler,
Jeffrey A. Rihn,
Alexander R. Vaccaro,
Todd J. Albert
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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03 January 2012 |
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Introduction
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.016
It is an honor to be the Guest Editor for this issue of Seminars in Spine Surgery with the theme of “Social and Legal Ramifications of Spine Care.” We have assembled a stellar group of authors with sp...
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David A. Wong
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Editorial
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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30 December 2011 |
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Five-Year Results of the ProDisc-L Multicenter, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial Comparing ProDisc-L With Circumferential Spinal Fusion for Single-Level Disabling Degenerative Disk Disease
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.006
Lumbar total disk replacement (TDR) has been used in Europe for many years and since 2000 in the United States with the initiation of the Food and Drug Administration investigational device exemption ...
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Jack E. Zigler
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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30 December 2011 |
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Who Should Define Value in Spine Care?
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.015
Ideally, each patient should be provided with accurate information on outcome and cost and select care based on the best value and personal care preferences. Unfortunately, useful information on outco...
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Charles Mick
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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30 December 2011 |
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Outcomes of CHARITE Lumbar Artificial Disk versus Fusion: 5-Year Data
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.007
Lumbar total disk replacement (TDR) has been used for the treatment of painful disk degeneration since the 1980s. Not until the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulated trials in the United States...
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Richard D. Guyer,
Issada Thongtrangan,
Donna D. Ohnmeiss
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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30 December 2011 |
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Social and Legal Ramifications of Spine Care: The Challenges
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.013
Challenges abound in our quest to define the “Social and Legal Ramifications of Spine Care.” These challenges exist not only in regards the present-day practice of spinal surgery but particularly with...
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David A. Wong,
Katherine E. Wong
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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30 December 2011 |
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PRESTIGE Cervical Arthroplasty: Past, Present, and Future
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.004
Cervical arthroplasty was developed and is used to preserve segmental motion of the cervical spine for selected patients who require cervical diskectomy. There are now 3 cervical arthroplasty devices ...
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Jau-Ching Wu,
Scott A. Meyer,
Gurpreet Gandhoke,
Praveen V. Mummaneni
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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30 December 2011 |
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Defining Appropriate Spine Care for the Patient as well as Society
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.019
In this era of constrained resources, spine care professionals are challenged to provide value and justification of resource allocation. For surgeons, this requires demonstration of clinical superiori...
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David W. Polly,
Charles Gerald T. Ledonio,
Jonathan N. Sembrano,
Robert A. Morgan
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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30 December 2011 |
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Unanticipated Outcomes After Cervical Disk Arthroplasty
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2011.11.005
A review of the literature was performed to study the complications of cervical disk arthroplasty. The following early postoperative complications will be discussed in this article: persistent neurolo...
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Johannes van Loon,
Jan Goffin
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Full-length article
(In Press Corrected Proof)
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30 December 2011 |