Thoracic Vertebrae

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A New Piece of the Puzzle to Understand Cervical Sagittal Alignment: Utilizing a Novel Angle δ to Describe the Relationship among T1 Vertebral Body Slope, Cervical Lordosis, and Cervical Sagittal Alignment. 
  • A bony Chance fracture through L1 following posterior spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a case report. 
  • A comparative analysis of the prevalence and characteristics of cervical malalignment in adults presenting with thoracolumbar spine deformity based on variations in treatment approach over 2 years. 
  • A comparison of the reliability and vulnerability of 3D sterEOS and 2D EOS when measuring the sagittal spinal alignment of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • A no-laminectomy spinal cord compression injury model in mice. 
  • A non-invasive method to produce pressure ulcers of varying severity in a spinal cord-injured rat model. 
  • A prospective, multicenter, phase I matched-comparison group trial of safety, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary efficacy of riluzole in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury. 
  • Accuracy of thoracic vertebral body screw placement using standard fluoroscopy, fluoroscopic image guidance, and computed tomographic image guidance: a cadaver study. 
  • Acoustic emissions in vertebral cortical shell failure. 
  • Adding thoracic fusion levels in Lenke 5 curves: risks and benefits. 
  • Adult cervicothoracic lipomyelomeningocele. 
  • Alignment Risk Factors for Proximal Junctional Kyphosis and the Effect of Lower Thoracic Junctional Tethers for Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • An assessment of the reliability of the Scoliometer. 
  • Anatomical location dictating major surgical complications for intradural extramedullary spinal tumors: a 10-year single-institutional experience. 
  • Anatomy of the thoracic paravertebral space: 3D micro-CT findings and their clinical implications for nerve blockade. 
  • Anterior stabilization of three-column thoracolumbar spinal trauma. 
  • Appropriate Risk Stratification and Accounting for Age-Adjusted Reciprocal Changes in the Thoracolumbar Spine Reduces the Incidence and Magnitude of Distal Junctional Kyphosis in Cervical Deformity Surgery. 
  • Assessment of Impact of Long-Cassette Standing X-Rays on Surgical Planning for Cervical Pathology: An International Survey of Spine Surgeons. 
  • Assessment of injury to the posterior ligamentous complex in thoracolumbar spine trauma. 
  • Assessment of injury to the thoracolumbar posterior ligamentous complex in the setting of normal-appearing plain radiography. 
  • Association between preoperative cervical sagittal deformity and inferior outcomes at 2-year follow-up in patients with adult thoracolumbar deformity: analysis of 182 patients. 
  • Association of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with impaired functional status. 
  • Automatic localization of target vertebrae in spine surgery: clinical evaluation of the LevelCheck registration algorithm. 
  • Bilateral transpedicular decompression and Harrington rod stabilization in the management of severe thoracolumbar burst fractures. 
  • Biomechanical analysis of the upper thoracic spine after decompressive procedures. 
  • Body mass index affects outcomes after vertebral body tethering surgery. 
  • CT accuracy of percutaneous versus open pedicle screw techniques: a series of 1609 screws. 
  • Carboplatin chemotherapy for progressive intramedullary spinal cord low-grade gliomas in children: three case studies and a review of the literature. 
  • Catecholamine-secreting paraganglioma of the thoracic spinal column: report of an unusual case and review of the literature. 
  • Cervical Versus Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformities: A Comparison of Baseline Quality-of-Life Burden. 
  • Cervical compensatory alignment changes following correction of adult thoracic deformity: a multicenter experience in 57 patients with a 2-year follow-up. 
  • Cervical mismatch: the normative value of T1 slope minus cervical lordosis and its ability to predict ideal cervical lordosis. 
  • Cervicothoracic myelopathy in Conradi-Hunermann disease: MRI diagnosis. 
  • Changes in thoracic kyphosis negatively impact sagittal alignment after lumbar pedicle subtraction osteotomy: a comprehensive radiographic analysis. 
  • Clear fluid from a spinal fracture-dislocation does not always mean dural tear. A case report. 
  • Clinical and radiographic presentation and treatment of patients with cervical deformity secondary to thoracolumbar proximal junctional kyphosis are distinct despite achieving similar outcomes: Analysis of 123 prospective CD cases. 
  • Comparison of minimally invasive transspinous and open approaches for thoracolumbar intradural-extramedullary spinal tumors. 
  • Confusion regarding mechanisms of injury in the setting of thoracolumbar spinal trauma: a survey of The Spine Trauma Study Group (STSG). 
  • Congenital abnormalities of the thoracic and lumbar spine. 
  • Congenital thoracolumbar spine deformities. 
  • Coronal Correction Using Kickstand Rods for Adult Thoracolumbar/Lumbar Scoliosis: Case Series With Analysis of Early Outcomes and Complications. 
  • Coupling behavior of the thoracic spine: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • Crossing the Cervicothoracic Junction in Posterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion: A Cohort Analysis. 
  • Despite worse baseline status depressed patients achieved outcomes similar to those in nondepressed patients after surgery for cervical deformity. 
  • Development of Risk Stratification Predictive Models for Cervical Deformity Surgery. 
  • Development of Validated Computer-based Preoperative Predictive Model for Proximal Junction Failure (PJF) or Clinically Significant PJK With 86% Accuracy Based on 510 ASD Patients With 2-year Follow-up. 
  • Development of a Novel Cervical Deformity Surgical Invasiveness Index. 
  • Differentiating normal from abnormal inferior thoracic paravertebral soft tissues on chest radiography in children. 
  • Distal junctional kyphosis in adult cervical deformity patients: where does it occur? 
  • Does vertebral level of pedicle subtraction osteotomy correlate with degree of spinopelvic parameter correction? 
  • Dorsal thoracic spinal cord herniation: report of an unusual case and review of the literature. 
  • Editorial: minimally invasive spinal deformity surgery. 
  • Effect of augmentation on the mechanics of vertebral wedge fractures. 
  • Establishment of an Individualized Distal Junctional Kyphosis Risk Index following the Surgical Treatment of Adult Cervical Deformities. 
  • Evaluation of wedging of lower thoracic and upper lumbar vertebral bodies in the pediatric population. 
  • Expert's comment concerning grand rounds case entitled "surgical treatment of a 180° thoracolumbar fixed kyphosis in a young achondroplastic patient: a one stage 'in situ' combined fusion and spinal cord translocation" (by J. C. Aurégan, T. Odent, M. Zerah, J.-P. Padovani and C. Glorion). 
  • Extreme lateral interbody fusion approach for isolated thoracic and thoracolumbar spine diseases: initial clinical experience and early outcomes. 
  • Global coronal decompensation and adult spinal deformity surgery: comparison of upper-thoracic versus lower-thoracic proximal fixation for long fusions. 
  • Growth-friendly Spinal Instrumentation in Marfan Syndrome Achieves Sustained Gains in Thoracic Height Amidst High Rates of Implant Failure. 
  • Identification of decision criteria for revision surgery among patients with proximal junctional failure after surgical treatment of spinal deformity. 
  • Identifying Thoracic Compensation and Predicting Reciprocal Thoracic Kyphosis and Proximal Junctional Kyphosis in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • IgG4-related disease presenting as intradural extramedullary lesion: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Immediate reduction in temporal sensory summation after thoracic spinal manipulation. 
  • Impact of Tumor Histology on Resectability and Neurological Outcome in Primary Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors: A Single-Center Experience With 102 Patients. 
  • Impact of frailty on complications in patients with thoracic and thoracolumbar spinal fracture. 
  • Impact of multimodal intraoperative monitoring during correction of symptomatic cervical or cervicothoracic kyphosis. 
  • In situ images of the thoracic paravertebral space. 
  • In-hospital medical complications after non-operative and operative treatment of thoracolumbar fractures in patients over 75 years of age. 
  • Incidence, mode, and location of acute proximal junctional failures after surgical treatment of adult spinal deformity. 
  • Interrater reliability of identifying indicators of posterior ligamentous complex disruption when plain films are indeterminate in thoracolumbar injuries. 
  • KAST Study: The Kiva System As a Vertebral Augmentation Treatment-A Safety and Effectiveness Trial: A Randomized, Noninferiority Trial Comparing the Kiva System With Balloon Kyphoplasty in Treatment of Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures. 
  • Letter to the Editor. Proximal junctional kyphosis and proximal junctional failure. 
  • Location of correction within the lumbar spine impacts acute adjacent-segment kyphosis. 
  • MR imaging of thoracic extradural arachnoid cysts. 
  • Magnitude of preoperative cervical lordotic compensation and C2-T3 angle are correlated to increased risk of postoperative sagittal spinal pelvic malalignment in adult thoracolumbar deformity patients at 2-year follow-up. 
  • Magnitude, Location, and Factors Related to Regional and Global Sagittal Alignment Change in Long Adult Deformity Constructs: Report of 183 Patients With 2-Year Follow-up. 
  • Maintenance of radiographic correction at 2 years following lumbar pedicle subtraction osteotomy is superior with upper thoracic compared with thoracolumbar junction upper instrumented vertebra. 
  • Man-in-the-barrel syndrome after thoracoilium fusion. 
  • Management of iatrogenic flat-back syndrome. 
  • Mastocytosis of the axial skeleton presenting as an epidural mass lesion: MR imaging appearance. 
  • Measures of shoulder protraction and thoracolumbar rotation. 
  • Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma to the Spine: Outcomes and Morbidity: Single-Center Experience. 
  • Mini-Open Lateral Corpectomy for Thoracolumbar Junction Lesions. 
  • Multilevel thoracic pedicle aplasia causing congenital thoracic kyphosis: case report. 
  • Multiple-day drainage when using bone morphogenic protein for long-segment thoracolumbar fusions is associated with low rates of wound complications. 
  • Neurogenic claudication with positionally dependent weakness from a thoracic disk herniation. 
  • Neuropathology in respiratory-related motoneurons in young Pompe (Gaa(-/-)) mice. 
  • Nonoperative Management in Neurologically Intact Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures: Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes. 
  • Novel Angular Measures of Cervical Deformity Account for Upper Cervical Compensation and Sagittal Alignment. 
  • Operative Treatment of Severe Scoliosis in Symptomatic Adults: Multicenter Assessment of Outcomes and Complications With Minimum 2-Year Follow-up. 
  • Optimizing the Definition of Proximal Junctional Kyphosis: A Sensitivity Analysis. 
  • Perioperative complications with costotransversectomy and anterior approaches to thoracic and thoracolumbar tumors. 
  • Postoperative cervical deformity in 215 thoracolumbar patients with adult spinal deformity: prevalence, risk factors, and impact on patient-reported outcome and satisfaction at 2-year follow-up. 
  • Pott's disease caused by Mycobacterium xenopi: case report and review. 
  • Practice management guidelines for the screening of thoracolumbar spine fracture. 
  • Predicting the Magnitude of Distal Junctional Kyphosis Following Cervical Deformity Correction. 
  • Predicting the combined occurrence of poor clinical and radiographic outcomes following cervical deformity corrective surgery. 
  • Predictive model for distal junctional kyphosis after cervical deformity surgery. 
  • Predominance of Spinal Metastases Involving the Posterior Vertebral Body. 
  • Prevalence and type of cervical deformities among adults with Parkinson's disease: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Prevertebral muscle involvement in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. 
  • Primary Drivers of Adult Cervical Deformity: Prevalence, Variations in Presentation, and Effect of Surgical Treatment Strategies on Early Postoperative Alignment. 
  • Progressive Spinal Kyphosis in the Aging Population. 
  • Prospective multi-centric evaluation of upper cervical and infra-cervical sagittal compensatory alignment in patients with adult cervical deformity. 
  • Proximal Junctional Kyphosis: Inter- and Intra-observer Reliability of Radiographic Measurements in Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • Proximal junctional kyphosis as a distinct form of adjacent segment pathology after spinal deformity surgery: a systematic review. 
  • Pseudogout of the cervical and thoracic spine mimicking infection after lumbar fusion: case report. 
  • Radiographic outcome and complications after single-level lumbar extended pedicle subtraction osteotomy for fixed sagittal malalignment: a retrospective analysis of 55 adult spinal deformity patients with a minimum 2-year follow-up. 
  • Rare cause of back pain: Staphylococcus aureus vertebral osteomyelitis complicated by recurrent epidural abscess and severe sepsis. 
  • Recent and Emerging Advances in Spinal Deformity. 
  • Reciprocal changes in cervical spine alignment after corrective thoracolumbar deformity surgery. 
  • Reduced occurrence of primary rod fracture after adult spinal deformity surgery with accessory supplemental rods: retrospective analysis of 114 patients with minimum 2-year follow-up. 
  • Reliability assessment of a novel cervical spine deformity classification system. 
  • Renal artery injury during lateral transpsoas interbody fusion: case report. 
  • Results of surgical treatment of painful adult scoliosis. 
  • Retrospective, propensity score-matched cohort study examining timing of fracture fixation for traumatic thoracolumbar fractures. 
  • Rod fractures in thoracolumbar fusions to the sacrum/pelvis for adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis: long-term follow-up of a prospective, multicenter cohort of 160 patients. 
  • Sagittal spino-pelvic alignment failures following three column thoracic osteotomy for adult spinal deformity. 
  • Sagittal spinopelvic parameters in children with achondroplasia: identification of 2 distinct groups. 
  • Selecting caudal fusion levels: 2 year functional and stiffness outcomes with matched pairs analysis in multilevel fusion to L5 versus S1. 
  • Selective versus nonselective fusion for idiopathic scoliosis: does lumbosacral takeoff angle change? 
  • Sexual function in older adults following thoracolumbar to pelvic instrumentation for spinal deformity. 
  • Short-term morbidity and mortality associated with correction of thoracolumbar fixed sagittal plane deformity: a report from the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Committee. 
  • Spinal Intradural Aneurysmal Bone Cyst: A Case Report. 
  • Spinal cavernous and capillary hemangiomas in adults. 
  • Spinal instability neoplastic score: an analysis of reliability and validity from the spine oncology study group. 
  • Spinal meningeal diverticula in spontaneous intracranial hypotension: analysis of prevalence and myelographic appearance. 
  • Spontaneous Lumbar Curve Correction Following Vertebral Body Tethering of Main Thoracic Curves. 
  • Spontaneous improvement of cervical alignment after correction of global sagittal balance following pedicle subtraction osteotomy. 
  • Suitability of the lumbar test dose for the thoracic epidural space. 
  • Surgery for the Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Patients After Skeletal Maturity: Early Versus Late Surgery. 
  • Surgical approaches for the correction of unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures: a retrospective analysis of treatment outcomes. 
  • Surgical management of complex spinal deformity. 
  • Surgical management of symptomatic cervical or cervicothoracic kyphosis due to ankylosing spondylitis. 
  • Surgical treatment of thoracolumbar fractures. 
  • The Additional Economic Burden of Frailty in Adult Cervical Deformity Patients Undergoing Surgical Intervention. 
  • The Clinical Correlation of the Hart-ISSG Proximal Junctional Kyphosis Severity Scale With Health-Related Quality-of-life Outcomes and Need for Revision Surgery. 
  • The Epidural "Test Dose" - Time to Rethink Our Thoracic Practice? 
  • The Fate of Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity Incurring Rod Fracture After Thoracolumbar Fusion. 
  • The Source and the Course of the Articular Branches to the T4-T8 Zygapophysial Joints. 
  • The Use of Sacral Osteotomy in the Correction of Spinal Deformity: Technical Report and Systematic Review of the Literature. 
  • The clinical impact of global coronal malalignment is underestimated in adult patients with thoracolumbar scoliosis. 
  • The effect of posterior polyester tethers on the biomechanics of proximal junctional kyphosis: a finite element analysis. 
  • The impact of age on surgical goals for spinopelvic alignment in minimally invasive surgery for adult spinal deformity. 
  • The likelihood of reaching minimum clinically important difference and substantial clinical benefit at 2 years following a 3-column osteotomy: analysis of 140 patients. 
  • The role of concurrent fusion to prevent spinal deformity after intramedullary spinal cord tumor excision in children. 
  • The vertebral column of Australopithecus sediba. 
  • TheT1 pelvic angle, a novel radiographic measure of global sagittal deformity, accounts for both spinal inclination and pelvic tilt and correlates with health-related quality of life. 
  • Therapeutic decision making in thoracolumbar spine trauma. 
  • Thoracic and lumbar spinal impact tolerance. 
  • Thoracic and lumbar spine trauma. 
  • Thoracic disc disease: experience with the transpedicular approach in twenty consecutive patients. 
  • Thoracic paravertebral block for breast surgery. 
  • Thoracolumbar spinal deformity. 
  • Thoracolumbar spinal deformity: evaluation and treatment. Foreword. 
  • Thoracolumbar vertebral reconstruction after surgery for metastatic spinal tumors: long-term outcomes. 
  • Three-column osteotomy for correction of cervical and cervicothoracic deformities: alignment changes and early complications in a multicenter prospective series of 23 patients. 
  • Time to development, clinical and radiographic characteristics, and management of proximal junctional kyphosis following adult thoracolumbar instrumented fusion for spinal deformity. 
  • To tether or fuse? Significant equipoise remains in treatment recommendations for idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • Transarterial embolization of vertebral hemangioma. 
  • Treatment of adult thoracolumbar spinal deformity: past, present, and future. 
  • Treatment of hostile midline back wounds: an extreme approach. 
  • Upper thoracic versus lower thoracic upper instrumented vertebrae endpoints have similar outcomes and complications in adult scoliosis. 
  • Upper versus Lower Lumbar Lordosis Corrections in Relation to Pelvic Tilt - An Essential Element in Surgical Planning for Sagittal Plane Deformity. 
  • Utility of multilevel lateral interbody fusion of the thoracolumbar coronal curve apex in adult deformity surgery in combination with open posterior instrumentation and L5-S1 interbody fusion: a case-matched evaluation of 32 patients. 
  • Utilization of Manipulative Treatment for Spine and Shoulder Conditions Between Different Medical Providers in a Large Military Hospital. 
  • Venous thromboembolism after thoracic/thoracolumbar spinal fusion. 
  • Wandering epidural catheter. 
  • When can we expect global sagittal alignment to reach a stable value following cervical deformity surgery? 
  • Which daily functions are most affected by stiffness following total lumbar fusion: comparison of upper thoracic and thoracolumbar proximal endpoints. 
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  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Rocos, Brett, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery