Spinal Fractures

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 27-Hydroxycholesterol, an Endogenous SERM, and Risk of Fracture in Postmenopausal Women: A Nested Case-Cohort Study in the Women's Health Initiative. 
  • A randomized controlled trial to compare the efficacy of cyclical parathyroid hormone versus cyclical parathyroid hormone and sequential calcitonin to improve bone mass in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. 
  • A rare case of metastatic extramammary Paget disease of the spine and review of the literature. 
  • ACR appropriateness criteria management of vertebral compression fractures. 
  • Aging spine: challenges and emerging techniques. 
  • Analysis of Cervical Spine Injuries in Elderly Patients from 2001 to 2010 Using a Nationwide Database: Increasing Incidence, Overall Mortality, and Inpatient Hospital Charges. 
  • Analysis of radiographically confirmed blunt-mechanism facial fractures. 
  • Anterior stabilization of three-column thoracolumbar spinal trauma. 
  • Antifracture efficacy and reduction of mortality in relation to timing of the first dose of zoledronic acid after hip fracture. 
  • Assessment of symptomatic rod fracture after posterior instrumented fusion for adult spinal deformity. 
  • Association of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with impaired functional status. 
  • Authors’ comments in response. 
  • Bilateral transpedicular decompression and Harrington rod stabilization in the management of severe thoracolumbar burst fractures. 
  • Biomechanics, evaluation, and management of subaxial cervical spine injuries: A comprehensive review of the literature. 
  • C-2 neurectomy during atlantoaxial instrumented fusion in the elderly: patient satisfaction and surgical outcome. 
  • CT fluoroscopically guided percutaneous placement of transiliosacral rod for sacral insufficiency fracture: case report and technique. 
  • Cervical spondylolysis. 
  • Clear fluid from a spinal fracture-dislocation does not always mean dural tear. A case report. 
  • Clinical identifiers for detecting underlying closed cervical fractures. 
  • Complications associated with surgical treatment of traumatic spinal fractures: a review of the scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality database. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of balloon kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty versus conservative medical management in the USA. 
  • Depression and outcome. 
  • Depressive symptomatology and fracture risk in community-dwelling older men and women. 
  • Do estrogen or selective estrogen receptor modulators improve quality of life for women with postmenopausal osteoporosis? 
  • Does this woman have osteoporosis? 
  • Dynamic responses of the head and cervical spine to axial impact loading. 
  • Effect of augmentation on the mechanics of vertebral wedge fractures. 
  • Efficacy and safety of a once-yearly intravenous zoledronic acid 5 mg for fracture prevention in elderly postmenopausal women with osteoporosis aged 75 and older. 
  • Experimental impact injury to the cervical spine: relating motion of the head and the mechanism of injury. 
  • External fixation and surgical fusion for pediatric cervical spine injuries: Short-term outcomes. 
  • Factors Associated With Narcotic Use After Clavicle Fractures. 
  • Femoral neck fracture in association with low-energy pelvic ring fractures in an elderly patient. 
  • Functional and quality-of-life outcomes in geriatric patients with type-II dens fracture. 
  • Fusion with occipital bone for atlantoaxial instability: technical note. 
  • Group treatment improves trunk strength and psychological status in older women with vertebral fractures: results of a randomized, clinical trial. 
  • Impact of frailty on complications in patients with thoracic and thoracolumbar spinal fracture. 
  • Improved assessment of lumbar vertebral body strength using supine lateral dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. 
  • 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. 
  • Innovative internal fixation for cervical spine fractures. 
  • Is the Face an Air Bag for the Brain and Torso?-The Potential Protective Effects of Severe Midface Fractures. 
  • 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. 
  • Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of the spinal canal following arthrodesis and removal of sublaminar wires. 
  • Management of patients with vertebral compression fractures. 
  • Managing Osteoporosis in Patients on Long-Term Bisphosphonate Treatment: Report of a Task Force of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. 
  • National trends in vertebral augmentation procedures for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures. 
  • Nonoperative Management in Neurologically Intact Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures: Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes. 
  • Pathological bone fractures in a 20-year old athletic male with multifocal solitary plasmacytoma of bone. 
  • Patterns of tumor spread and risk of fracture and epidural impingement in metastatic vertebrae. 
  • Pediatric Spine Trauma in the United States--Analysis of the HCUP Kid'S Inpatient Database (KID) 1997-2009. 
  • Practice management guidelines for the screening of thoracolumbar spine fracture. 
  • Predictors of mortality, hospital utilization, and the role of race in outcomes in head and neck trauma. 
  • Progressive Spinal Kyphosis in the Aging Population. 
  • Proximal Junctional Kyphosis: Inter- and Intra-observer Reliability of Radiographic Measurements in Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • Reliability and reproducibility of subaxial cervical injury description system: a standardized nomenclature schema. 
  • Renal osteodystrophy: neurosurgical considerations and challenges. 
  • Retrospective, propensity score-matched cohort study examining timing of fracture fixation for traumatic thoracolumbar fractures. 
  • Severe dysphagia secondary to posterior C1-C3 instrumentation in a patient with atlantoaxial traumatic injury: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Similarities and differences in the treatment of spine trauma between surgical specialties and location of practice. 
  • Simple method for determining the need for sternotomy/manubriotomy with the anterior approach to the cervicothoracic junction. 
  • Spinal deformity and mobility self-confidence among women with osteoporosis and vertebral fractures. 
  • Surgical approaches for the correction of unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures: a retrospective analysis of treatment outcomes. 
  • Surgical treatment of thoracolumbar fractures. 
  • The AOSpine North America Geriatric Odontoid Fracture Mortality Study: a retrospective review of mortality outcomes for operative versus nonoperative treatment of 322 patients with long-term follow-up. 
  • The clinical impact of vertebral fractures: quality of life in women with osteoporosis. 
  • The timing and influence of MRI on the management of patients with cervical facet dislocations remains highly variable: a survey of members of the Spine Trauma Study Group. 
  • Therapeutic decision making in thoracolumbar spine trauma. 
  • Timed loaded standing: a measure of combined trunk and arm endurance suitable for people with vertebral osteoporosis. 
  • Timing of tracheostomy after anterior cervical spine fixation. 
  • Traumatic burst fracture in a patient with a lumbar artificial disc. 
  • Treatment of hostile midline back wounds: an extreme approach. 
  • Trends in pathological vertebral fractures in the United States: 1993 to 2004. 
  • Trends in surgical management for type II odontoid fracture: 20 years of experience at a regional spinal cord injury center. 
  • Type II odontoid fractures in the elderly: early failure of nonsurgical treatment. 
  • Venous thromboembolism in spine surgery. 
  • Vertebral compression fractures in primary care: recommendations from a consensus panel. 
  • Zoledronic acid results in better health-related quality of life following hip fracture: the HORIZON-Recurrent Fracture Trial. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Developmental Neuroscience
  • Gottfried, Oren N, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • Olson, Steven Arthur, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics