1. Sexual activity after spine surgery: a systematic review

   • Azeem Tariq Malik
   • Nikhil Jain
   • Elizabeth Yu

   Review 23 May 2018 Pages: 2395 - 2426

   

2. Gender differences in degenerative spine surgery: Do female patients really fare worse?

   • Alessandro Siccoli
   • Victor E. Staartjes
   • Marc L. Schröder

   Original Article 21 August 2018 Pages: 2427 - 2435

   

3. Requesting spinal MRIs effectively from primary care referrals

   • Ignatius Liew
   • Fraser Dean
   • Odhrán Murray

   Original Article 10 April 2018 Pages: 2436 - 2441

   

4. Population-averaged MRI atlases for automated image processing and assessments of lumbar paraspinal muscles

   • Yiming Xiao
   • Maryse Fortin
   • Hassan Rivaz

   Original Article 26 July 2018 Pages: 2442 - 2448

   

5. Predicting medical complications in spine surgery: evaluation of a novel online risk calculator

   • Maximilian F. Kasparek
   • Friedrich Boettner
   • Josef Grohs

   Original Article Open access 28 July 2018 Pages: 2449 - 2456

   

6. Impact of MSSA screening on rates of surgical site infection following lumbar spine surgery

   • Mark Higgins
   • Rajendrenadh Bommireddy
   • James Billson

   Original Article 25 July 2018 Pages: 2457 - 2462

   

7. Titanium granules pre-treated with hydrogen peroxide inhibit growth of bacteria associated with post-operative infections in spine surgery

   • Acke Ohlin
   • Emma Mattsson
   • Kristian Riesbeck

   Original Article Open access 07 May 2018 Pages: 2463 - 2468

   

8. What are the risk factors for surgical site infection after spinal fusion? A meta-analysis

   • Sebastien Pesenti
   • Tejbir Pannu
   • on behalf of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS)

   Original Article 20 August 2018 Pages: 2469 - 2480

   

9. Risk factors for implant removal after spinal surgical site infection

   • Naoya Tsubouchi
   • Shunsuke Fujibayashi
   • Shuichi Matsuda

   Original Article 14 September 2017 Pages: 2481 - 2490

   

10. Revision spine surgery in patients without clinical signs of infection: How often are there occult infections in removed hardware?

    • Xiaobang Hu
    • Isador H. Lieberman

    Original Article 20 June 2018 Pages: 2491 - 2495

    

11. Low virulence bacterial infections in cervical intervertebral discs: a prospective case series

    • Yilei Chen
    • Xianjun Wang
    • Fengdong Zhao

    Original Article 19 April 2018 Pages: 2496 - 2505

    

12. Association between chronic inflammation and latent infection of Propionibacterium acnes in non-pyogenic degenerated intervertebral discs: a pilot study

    • Ye Yuan
    • Yong Chen
    • Peng Cao

    Original Article 31 October 2017 Pages: 2506 - 2517

    

13. The impact of deep surgical site infection on surgical outcomes after posterior adult spinal deformity surgery: a matched control study

    • Sleiman Haddad
    • Susana Núñez-Pereira
    • European Spine Study Group

    Original Article 04 May 2018 Pages: 2518 - 2528

    

14. Pedicle screw loosening is correlated to chronic subclinical deep implant infection: a retrospective database analysis

    • Lukas Leitner
    • Isabella Malaj
    • Roman Radl

    Original Article 13 April 2018 Pages: 2529 - 2535

    

15. The use of vacuum-assisted closure in spinal wound infections with or without exposed dura

    • Robert Lee
    • Daniel Beder
    • Brian Kwon

    Original Article 25 April 2018 Pages: 2536 - 2542

    

16. Does Staphylococcus aureus nasal decontamination affect the rate of early surgical site infection in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery?

    • Cindy Mallet
    • Marion Caseris
    • Brice Ilharreborde

    Original Article 25 August 2018 Pages: 2543 - 2549

    

17. Single balloon versus double balloon bipedicular kyphoplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    • Zehao Jing
    • Jianli Dong
    • Feng Nan

    Review 19 June 2018 Pages: 2550 - 2564

    

18. Osteoporotic vertebral fractures: predictive factors for conservative treatment failure. A systematic review

    • Marco Muratore
    • Andrea Ferrera
    • Alessandro Bistolfi

    Review 13 October 2017 Pages: 2565 - 2576

    

19. Does the META score evaluating osteoporotic and metastatic vertebral fractures have enough agreement to be used by orthopaedic surgeons with different levels of training?

    • Julio Urrutia
    • Pablo Besa
    • Sebastian Mobarec

    Original Article 11 July 2018 Pages: 2577 - 2583

    

20. Presentation and management of symptomatic central bone cement embolization

    • Ahmed Samir Barakat
    • Tamer Owais
    • Heinrich Boehm

    Original Article 18 August 2017 Pages: 2584 - 2592

    

21. Pulmonary cement embolism is not associated with the cause of death in a post-mortem cohort of cement-augmented interventions in the spine

    • Sebastian Butscheidt
    • Tim Rolvien
    • Klaus Püschel

    Original Article 17 April 2018 Pages: 2593 - 2601

    

22. Is vertebral body stenting in combination with CaP cement superior to kyphoplasty?

    • Sebastian Schützenberger
    • S. M. Schwarz
    • C. Fialka

    Original Article 11 August 2018 Pages: 2602 - 2608

    

23. Lupeol against high-glucose-induced apoptosis via enhancing the anti-oxidative stress in rabbit nucleus pulposus cells

    • Ming-Bo Guo
    • De-Chun Wang
    • Hui Xue

    Original Article 14 July 2018 Pages: 2609 - 2620

    

24. TRPC6 in simulated microgravity of intervertebral disc cells

    • Alfredo Franco-Obregón
    • Elena Cambria
    • Karin Wuertz-Kozak

    Original Article Open access 02 July 2018 Pages: 2621 - 2630

    

25. Intervertebral disc needle puncture injury can be repaired using a gelatin–poly (γ-glutamic acid) hydrogel: an in vitro bovine biomechanical validation

    • Jui-Jung Yang
    • Frank Li
    • Jaw-Lin Wang

    Original Article 20 August 2018 Pages: 2631 - 2638

    

26. Disc cell therapy with bone-marrow-derived autologous mesenchymal stromal cells in a large porcine disc degeneration model

    • G. W. Omlor
    • S. Lorenz
    • W. Richter

    Original Article 23 August 2018 Pages: 2639 - 2649

    

27. The effect of muscle ageing and sarcopenia on spinal segmental loads

    • Dominika Ignasiak
    • Waldo Valenzuela
    • Stephen J. Ferguson

    Original Article 28 August 2018 Pages: 2650 - 2659

    

28. Letter to the Editor concerning “Proposal for a new trajectory for subaxial cervical lateral mass screws” by S. Amhaz-Escanlar et al. (Eur Spine J; 2018: doi:10.1007/s00586-018-5670-5)

    • Gaston Camino Willhuber

    Letter to the Editor 04 August 2018 Pages: 2660 - 2660

29. Answer to the Letter to the Editor of G.C. Willhuber concerning “Proposal for a new trajectory for subaxial cervical lateral mass screws” by S. Amhaz-Escanlar et al. (Eur Spine J; 2018: doi: 10.1007/s00586-018-5670-5)

    • Máximo-Alberto Díez-Ulloa

    Author's Reply 20 August 2018 Pages: 2661 - 2662

30. Correction to: Total disc replacement versus fusion for lumbar degenerative disc disease: a systematic review of overlapping meta-analyses

    • Fan Ding
    • Zhiwei Jia
    • Ming Liu

    Correction 08 September 2018 Pages: 2663 - 2663

31. Correction to: Right infraaxillary thoracotomy approach for upper thoracic vertebral decompression and fusion at T2–T6 levels: a technical note

    • Jia Liu
    • Shengfa Li
    • Yujing Tang

    Correction 24 August 2018 Pages: 2664 - 2664

32. Abstracts for 32 GEER- Spanish Spine Society Congress in Avila, Spain, June 2018

    Abstracts 03 October 2018 Pages: 2665 - 2690

33. Announcements

    Announcements 04 October 2018 Pages: 2691 - 2691