1. Case Reports

   Contents 30 May 2012 Pages: 373 - 377

2. CT-guided percutaneous translaminar approach for blood patching: case report and technical note

   • Sait Albayram
   • Bashar Abuzayed
   • Mehmet Yasar Kaynar

   Case Report 25 May 2011 Pages: 378 - 382

   

3. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension due to intradural thoracic osteophyte with superimposed disc herniation: report of two cases

   • Zehra Isik Hasiloglu
   • Bashar Abuzayed
   • Sait Albayram

   Case Report 25 May 2011 Pages: 383 - 386

   

4. Perineural cyst presenting like cubital tunnel syndrome

   • Fatih Bayrakli
   • Murat Kurtuncu
   • Serdar Ozgen

   Case Report 15 May 2011 Pages: 387 - 389

   

5. Isolated intramedullary neurosarcoidosis of the thoracic spine: case report and review of the literature

   • Bradley S. Duhon
   • Lubdha Shah
   • Meic H. Schmidt

   Case Report 20 May 2011 Pages: 390 - 395

   

6. Anterior migration of spinal cord after cervical corpectomy

   • Yu Qian
   • Guojian Xu
   • Dong Wen

   Case Report 04 June 2011 Pages: 396 - 399

   

7. Spinal gout tophus: a very rare cause of radiculopathy

   • Askin Esen Hasturk
   • Mehmet Basmaci
   • Fuat Erten

   Case Report 19 May 2011 Pages: 400 - 403

   

8. Long-term outcome of idiopathic hypertrophic thoracic pachymeningitis

   • Mio Tsutsui
   • Taketoshi Yasuda
   • Tomoatsu Kimura

   Case Report 19 May 2011 Pages: 404 - 407

   

9. Rapid progression of spinal epidural lipomatosis

   • Kyung-Chul Choi
   • Byung-Uk Kang
   • Sang-Ho Lee

   Case Report 11 June 2011 Pages: 408 - 412

   

10. Veillonella spondylodiscitis in a healthy 76-year-old lady

    • Thomas J. Kishen
    • Steven T. Lindstrom
    • Ashish D. Diwan

    Case Report 16 June 2011 Pages: 413 - 417

    

11. Cervical disc herniation producing acute Brown-Sequard syndrome: dynamic changes documented by intraoperative neuromonitoring

    • Julio Urrutia
    • Ricardo Fadic

    Case Report 16 June 2011 Pages: 418 - 421

    

12. Surgical treatment of spontaneous intracranial hypotension secondary to degenerative cervical spine pathology: a case report and literature review

    • Christopher D. Witiw
    • Aria Fallah
    • Howard J. Ginsberg

    Case Report 27 August 2011 Pages: 422 - 427

    

13. Chordoma of the thoracic spine in an 89-year-old

    • Ricardo Fontes
    • John E. O’Toole

    Case Report 25 August 2011 Pages: 428 - 432

    

14. Spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma during Factor Xa inhibitor treatment (Rivaroxaban)

    • M. Jaeger
    • B. Jeanneret
    • S. Schaeren

    Case Report 28 August 2011 Pages: 433 - 435

    

15. Arachnoid ossificans containing metaplastic hematopoietic marrow resulting in diffuse thoracic intrathecal cysts and severe myelopathy

    • Joshua Abrams
    • Gordon Li
    • Ivan Cheng

    Case Report 04 September 2011 Pages: 436 - 440

    

16. Solitary eosinophilic granuloma of the adult lumbar spine

    • Maurizio Montalti
    • Luca Amendola

    Case Report 30 October 2011 Pages: 441 - 444

    

17. Treatment of an osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture with the StaXx FX system resulting in intrathoracic wafers: a serious complication

    • L. W. van der Plaat
    • G. H. Bulstra
    • H. M. van der Vis

    Case Report Open access 02 November 2011 Pages: 445 - 449

    

18. Chronic pure radiculopathy in patient with organizing epidural hematoma around C8 nerve root

    • Sang-hyuk Kim
    • Sang-ho Jeon
    • Jong-pil Eun

    Case Report 17 January 2012 Pages: 450 - 452

    

19. Chronic dura erosion and intradural lumbar disc herniation: CT and MR imaging and intraoperative photographs of a transdural sequestrectomy

    • Frank Floeth
    • Jörg Herdmann

    Case Report 23 November 2011 Pages: 453 - 457

    

20. Chondromyxoid fibroma of the lumbar spine: case report and literature review

    • Raquel Gutiérrez-González
    • Laura De Reina
    • José García-Uría

    Case Report 18 November 2011 Pages: 458 - 462

    

21. Hemodialysis-related upper cervical extradural amyloidoma presenting with intractable radiculopathy

    • Yasuhiro Takeshima
    • Masashi Kotsugi
    • Hiroyuki Nakase

    Case Report 25 November 2011 Pages: 463 - 466

    

22. Isolated extradural tuberculous granuloma of the cervical spine: a case report

    • Qi Ding
    • Zhen Liu
    • Yong Qiu

    Chinese section 01 December 2011 Pages: 467 - 470

    

23. An uncommon C1 fracture with longitudinal split of the transverse ligament

    • D. R. Kaiser
    • R. Ciarpaglini
    • G. Maestretti

    Case Report 14 December 2011 Pages: 471 - 474

    

24. Reviewer’s comment concerning “An uncommon C1 fracture with longitudinal split of the transverse ligament” (doi:10.1007/00586-011-2102-1 by D. R. Kaiser, R. Ciarpaglini, G. Maestretti)

    • Helton L. A. Defino

    Reviewer's Comment 26 January 2012 Pages: 475 - 475

25. Prophylactic intraoperative powdered vancomycin and postoperative deep spinal wound infection: 1,512 consecutive surgical cases over a 6-year period

    • Robert W. Molinari
    • Oner A. Khera
    • William J. Molinari III

    Case Report 08 December 2011 Pages: 476 - 482

    

26. Growth hormone supplement treatment reduces the surgical risk for Prader–Willi Syndrome patients

    • Yutaka Nakamura
    • Toshiro Nagai
    • Yutaka Nohara

    Case Report 23 December 2011 Pages: 483 - 491

    

27. The use of intra-operative blood gas analysis in the investigation of suspected iatrogenic vascular injury

    • Brian P. Walcott
    • Kristopher T. Kahle
    • Wael F. Asaad

    Case Report 14 December 2011 Pages: 492 - 494

28. Transient bilateral post-operative visual loss in spinal surgery

    • Nasir A. Quraishi
    • Jean-Paul Wolinsky
    • Ziya L. Gokaslan

    Case Report 15 December 2011 Pages: 495 - 498

29. Kyphoscoliosis associated with congenital neuromuscular disease with uniform type 1 fibers

    • Shiro Imagama
    • Noriaki Kawakami
    • Naoki Ishiguro

    Case Report 23 December 2011 Pages: 499 - 504

    

30. Bilateral vasculopexy of anomalous vertebral arteries causing cervicomedullary compression: case report and technical note

    • Abhidha Shah
    • Amit Mahore
    • Atul Goel

    Case Report 12 January 2012 Pages: 505 - 508

    

31. C2 lamina reconstruction using locking miniplate for the intradural tumor of the craniocervical junction (two case reports)

    • Hisanori Ikuma
    • Kensuke Shinohara
    • Masato Tanaka

    Case Report 08 January 2012 Pages: 509 - 512

    

32. Clinical, radiological, histological and retrieval findings of Activ-L and Mobidisc total disc replacements: a study of two patients

    • Shennah Austen
    • Ilona M. Punt
    • André van Ooij

    Case Report 15 January 2012 Pages: 513 - 520

    

33. Drug overdose resulting in quadriplegia

    • Teresa S. Wang
    • Betsy H. Grunch
    • Oren N. Gottfried

    Case Report 11 January 2012 Pages: 521 - 524

    

34. Spinal tuberculosis occurring after a closed bursting fracture of the vertebrae

    • Bo Huang
    • Chang-Qing Li
    • Yue Zhou

    Case Report 26 January 2012 Pages: 525 - 530

    

35. Rhabdomyolysis after heterotopic ossification: an unusual complication in a spinal cord injured patient

    • Mustafa Citak
    • Eduardo M. Suero
    • Thomas A. Schildhauer

    Case Report 04 February 2012 Pages: 531 - 534

    

36. The role of MRI in spinal stab wounds compared with intraoperative findings

    • Stephan Emich
    • Friedrich Weymayr
    • Mark R. McCoy

    Case Report 24 February 2012 Pages: 535 - 541

    

37. Subacute steroid-induced paraparesis: surgical treatment of a devastating “invisible” side effect

    • M. Javad Mirzayan
    • Thomas Goessling
    • Joachim K. Krauss

    Case Report 28 February 2012 Pages: 542 - 544

    

38. Quadriceps muscle rupture mimicking lumbar radiculopathy

    • Joon-Ho Lee
    • Sung-Hwan Cho
    • Hee-Cheol Jin

    Case Report 15 February 2012 Pages: 545 - 548

    

39. Minimally invasive lumbopelvic instrumentation for traumatic sacrolisthesis in an elderly patient

    • Joshua J. Wind
    • Lauren M. Burke
    • Joseph R. O’Brien

    Case Report 22 February 2012 Pages: 549 - 553

    

40. Anterior thigh compartment syndrome after prone positioning for lumbosacral fixation

    • R. Dahab
    • C. Barrett
    • M. De Matas

    Case Report 07 April 2012 Pages: 554 - 556

    

41. Empyema in spinal canal in thoracic region, abscesses in paravertebral space, spondylitis: in clinical course of zoonosis Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae

    • Jarosław Andrychowski
    • Piotr Jasielski
    • Zbigniew Czernicki

    Case Report Open access 17 April 2012 Pages: 557 - 563

    

42. Remote intracranial parenchymal haematomas as complications of spinal surgery: presentation of three cases with minor or untypical symptoms

    • Ralf G. Hempelmann
    • Eckhardt Mater

    Case Report 17 April 2012 Pages: 564 - 568

    

43. Currarino’s triad diagnosed in an adult woman

    • Lotte M. E. Berghauser Pont
    • Clemens M. F. Dirven
    • Ruben Dammers

    Case Report Open access 24 April 2012 Pages: 569 - 572

    

44. Erratum to: Subacute steroid-induced paraparesis: surgical treatment of a devastating “invisible” side effect

    • M. Javad Mirzayan
    • Thomas Goessling
    • Joachim K. Krauss

    Erratum 10 May 2012 Pages: 573 - 573