1. Design concepts in lumbar total disc arthroplasty

   • Fabio Galbusera
   • Chiara M. Bellini
   • Maurizio Fornari

   Review 23 October 2008 Pages: 1635 - 1650

   

2. Surgical approach to cervical spondylotic myelopathy on the basis of radiological patterns of compression: prospective analysis of 129 cases

   • Mihir R. Bapat
   • Kshitij Chaudhary
   • Vinod Laheri

   Original Article 23 October 2008 Pages: 1651 - 1663

   

3. Percutaneous cervical nucleoplasty in the treatment of cervical disc herniation

   • Jian Li
   • Deng-lu Yan
   • Zai-Heng Zhang

   Original Article 01 October 2008 Pages: 1664 - 1669

   

4. Reviewer’s comment concerning “Percutaneous cervical nucleoplasty treatment in the cervical disc herniation” (Jian Li et al. MS-no: ESJO-D-08-00079R2)

   • H. Michael Mayer

   Reviewer's Comment 15 November 2008 Pages: 1670 - 1670

5. Aprotinin in pediatric neuromuscular scoliosis surgery

   • Stepan Kasimian
   • David L. Skaggs
   • Vernon T. Tolo

   Original Article 27 September 2008 Pages: 1671 - 1675

   

6. Improved accuracy in Risser sign grading with lateral spinal radiography

   • Tomasz Kotwicki

   Original Article 23 October 2008 Pages: 1676 - 1685

   

7. Accuracy and safety of pedicle screw placement in neuromuscular scoliosis with free-hand technique

   • Hitesh N. Modi
   • Seung Woo Suh
   • Hae-Ryong Song

   Original Article 01 October 2008 Pages: 1686 - 1696

   

8. The sagittal balance of the spine in children and adolescents with osteogenesis imperfecta

   • Karimane Abelin
   • Raphaël Vialle
   • Véronique Forin

   Original Article 27 September 2008 Pages: 1697 - 1704

   

9. Grading of degenerative disk disease and functional impairment: imaging versus patho-anatomical findings

   • Ulrich Quint
   • Hans-Joachim Wilke

   Original Article 07 October 2008 Pages: 1705 - 1713

   

10. Peridural scar and its relation to clinical outcome: a randomised study on surgically treated lumbar disc herniation patients

    • Katarina Rönnberg
    • B. Lind
    • H. Brisby

    Original Article 23 October 2008 Pages: 1714 - 1720

    

11. Back and hip extensor muscles fatigue in healthy subjects: task-dependency effect of two variants of the Sorensen test

    • Annick Champagne
    • Martin Descarreaux
    • Danik Lafond

    Original Article 24 September 2008 Pages: 1721 - 1726

    

12. Does socioeconomic status in adolescence predict low back pain in adulthood? A repeated cross-sectional study of 4,771 Danish adolescents

    • Lise Hestbaek
    • Lars Korsholm
    • Kirsten Ohm Kyvik

    Original Article 02 October 2008 Pages: 1727 - 1734

13. Posterior lumbar interbody fusion using rhBMP-2

    • Hans Jörg Meisel
    • Mark Schnöring
    • Ulrich Mansmann

    Original Article 07 October 2008 Pages: 1735 - 1744

    

14. A less invasive surgical approach in the lumbar lateral recess stenosis: direct approach to the medial wall of the pedicle

    • Ahmet Çolak
    • Kıvanç Topuz
    • Mehmet N. Demircan

    Original Article 01 October 2008 Pages: 1745 - 1751

    

15. Effectiveness of a mucolythic agent as a local adjuvant in revision lumbar spine surgery

    • Vincenzo Denaro
    • Alberto Di Martino
    • Luca Denaro

    Original Article 07 October 2008 Pages: 1752 - 1756

    

16. Biomechanical comparison of two different concepts for stand alone anterior lumbar interbody fusion

    • Philipp Schleicher
    • R. Gerlach
    • F. Kandziora

    Original Article 08 October 2008 Pages: 1757 - 1765

    

17. Modic changes: “Age, si quid agis”

    • João Luiz Pinheiro Franco

    Letter to the Editor 23 October 2008 Pages: 1766 - 1768

18. Reply to the letter to the editor of João Luiz Pinheiro Franco

    • Per Kjaer
    • Tom Bendix
    • Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde

    Author's Reply 23 October 2008 Pages: 1769 - 1770

19. Response to reply to the letter to the editor concerning “Gebauer et al.: Subdental synchondrosis and anatomy of the axis in aging: a histomorphometric study on 30 autopsy cases. Eur Spine J 15(3):292–298, 2006”: The basis of the dens axis. Where is it located?

    • Xiao-ping Wang
    • Zhi-cheng Deng
    • Yu-min Tu

    Letter to the Editor 23 October 2008 Pages: 1771 - 1774

    

20. The development of the axis vertebra: the key to a topographic classification of dens fractures

    • Matthias Gebauer
    • Michael Amling

    Author's Reply 23 October 2008 Pages: 1775 - 1777

    

21. Announcements

    Announcements 13 November 2008 Pages: 1778 - 1778