1. ISSLS PRIZE in basic science 2023: Lactate in lumbar discs—metabolic waste or energy biofuel? Insights from in vivo MRS and T2r analysis following exercise and nimodipine in healthy volunteers

   • B. T. Pushpa
   • S. Rajasekaran
   • Ajoy Prasad Shetty

   ISSLS Prize 15 February 2023 Pages: 1491 - 1503

   

2. ISSLS PRIZE in Clinical Science 2023: comparison of degenerative MRI features of the intervertebral disc between those with and without chronic low back pain. An exploratory study of two large female populations using automated annotation

   • A. Jamaludin
   • T. Kadir
   • J. C. T. Fairbank

   Original Article Open access 30 March 2023 Pages: 1504 - 1516

   

3. ISSLS Prize in Bioengineering Science 2023: Age- and sex-related differences in lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration between patients with chronic low back pain and asymptomatic controls

   • Noah B. Bonnheim
   • Ann A. Lazar
   • Aaron J. Fields

   ISSLS Prize Open access 18 February 2023 Pages: 1517 - 1524

   

4. Georg Schmorl prize of the German spine society (DWG) 2022: current treatment for inpatients with osteoporotic thoracolumbar fractures—results of the EOFTT study

   • Bernhard W. Ullrich
   • Philipp Schenk
   • Working Group Osteoporotic Fractures of the Spine Section of the German Society of Orthopaedics and Trauma

   Original Article Open access 03 January 2023 Pages: 1525 - 1535

   

5. Integrative analysis of metabolomic, genomic, and imaging-based phenotypes identify very-low-density lipoprotein as a potential risk factor for lumbar Modic changes

   News 28 April 2023 Pages: 1536 - 1536

6. Age-based exclusion is common and multifactorial in spinal RCTs: a systematic review and quantitative analysis

   • Gem Chew
   • Spiro Menounos
   • Ashish D. Diwan

   Review Article Open access 07 March 2023 Pages: 1537 - 1545

   

7. CT-based analysis of sagittal and coronal lumbar endplate morphology: multivariate analysis of factors associated with endplate depth

   • Koichiro Shima
   • Shunsuke Fujibayashi
   • Shuichi Matsuda

   Original Article 15 March 2023 Pages: 1546 - 1552

   

8. Use of MRI-based vertebral bone quality score (VBQ) of S1 body in bone mineral density assessment for patients with lumbar degenerative diseases

   • Weibo Huang
   • Zhaoyang Gong
   • Jianyuan Jiang

   Original Article 19 March 2023 Pages: 1553 - 1560

   

9. Are serum thyroid hormone, parathormone, calcium, and vitamin D levels associated with lumbar spine degeneration? A cross-sectional observational clinical study

   • Murat Şakir Ekşi
   • Ömer Orhun
   • Emel Ece Özcan-Ekşi

   Original Article 28 March 2023 Pages: 1561 - 1574

   

10. Treatment of acute traumatic central cord syndrome: a score-based approach based on the literature

    • A. Aravin Kumar
    • Wong Joey Ying Hao
    • Ling Ji Min

    Review Article 13 March 2023 Pages: 1575 - 1583

    

11. Prognostic MRI parameters in acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury

    • M. Dobran
    • D. Aiudi
    • G. Polonara

    Original Article Open access 08 March 2023 Pages: 1584 - 1590

    

12. Is procalcitonin a reliable indicator of sepsis in spinal cord injury patients: an observational cohort study

    • Mohammad Anas
    • Tayyab Hasan
    • Wajid A. Raza

    Original Article Open access 26 March 2023 Pages: 1591 - 1597

    

13. Distal junctional kyphosis in adult cervical deformity patients: where does it occur?

    • Jichao Ye
    • Sean M. Rider
    • The International Spine Study Group (ISSG)

    Original Article 16 March 2023 Pages: 1598 - 1606

    

14. Age-related changes in cervical sagittal alignment: based on 625 Chinese asymptomatic subjects

    • Zheng Wang
    • Xu Liu
    • Shibao Lu

    Original Article 10 March 2023 Pages: 1607 - 1615

    

15. Adjacent segment mobility after ACDF considering fusion status at the implant insertion site

    • Bartosz Godlewski
    • Adam Bebenek
    • Tomasz Pawelczyk

    Original Article Open access 14 March 2023 Pages: 1616 - 1623

    

16. Prevalence of sleep disturbance in patients with cervical radiculopathy and an analysis of risk factors: a cross-sectional study

    • Tengbin Shi
    • Zhi Chen
    • Wenge Liu

    Original Article 19 March 2023 Pages: 1624 - 1635

    

17. MRI-based vertebral bone quality score compared to quantitative computed tomography bone mineral density in patients undergoing cervical spinal surgery

    • Lisa Oezel
    • Ichiro Okano
    • Alexander P. Hughes

    Original Article 07 March 2023 Pages: 1636 - 1643

    

18. Clinical and radiological outcomes of one-level cervical corpectomy with an expandable cage for three-column uncomplicated subaxial type «B» injures: a multicenter retrospective study

    • Vadim A. Byvaltsev
    • Andrei A. Kalinin
    • K. Daniel Riew

    Original Article 28 March 2023 Pages: 1644 - 1654

    

19. Lateral versus posterior approaches to treat degenerative lumbar pathologies–systematic review and meta-analysis of recent literature

    • Rodrigo Amaral
    • Gabriel Pokorny
    • Luiz Pimenta

    Review Article 14 March 2023 Pages: 1655 - 1677

    

20. Bone collagen quality in lumbar fusion patients: the association between volumetric bone mineral density and advanced glycation endproducts

    • Henryk Haffer
    • Erika Chiapparelli
    • Alexander P. Hughes

    Original Article 16 March 2023 Pages: 1678 - 1687

    

21. Minimally invasive lateral single-position surgery for multilevel degenerative lumbar spine disease: feasibility and perioperative results in a single Latin-American spine center

    • Sara Henao Romero
    • Miguel Berbeo
    • Daniel Villamizar Torres

    Original Article 24 March 2023 Pages: 1688 - 1694

    

22. Vertebropexy as a semi-rigid ligamentous alternative to lumbar spinal fusion

    • Mazda Farshad
    • Christos Tsagkaris
    • Anna-Katharina Calek

    Original Article Open access 17 March 2023 Pages: 1695 - 1703

    

23. Changes in psoas and posterior paraspinal muscle morphology after standalone lateral lumbar interbody fusion: a quantitative MRI-based analysis

    • Manuel Moser
    • Dominik Adl Amini
    • Alexander P. Hughes

    Original Article 08 March 2023 Pages: 1704 - 1713

    

24. Functional neurological outcome of spinal cavernous malformation surgery

    • Laurèl Rauschenbach
    • Alejandro N. Santos
    • Philipp Dammann

    Original Article Open access 16 March 2023 Pages: 1714 - 1720

    

25. The correlation between lumbar interlaminar space size on plain radiograph and spinal stenosis

    • Yu Wang
    • Peng Zhang
    • Honglin Teng

    Original Article 20 March 2023 Pages: 1721 - 1728

    

26. Predictive factors for respiratory failure and in-hospital mortality after surgery for spinal metastasis

    • Pilan Jaipanya
    • Thamrong Lertudomphonwanit
    • Pittavat Leelapattana

    Original Article Open access 21 March 2023 Pages: 1729 - 1740

    

27. Asymmetric distribution of Modic changes in patients with lumbar disc herniation

    • Zhaohui Li
    • Xianda Gao
    • Sidong Yang

    Original Article 28 March 2023 Pages: 1741 - 1750

    

28. Early cement augmentation may be a good treatment option for pain relief for osteoporotic compression fractures: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    • Shawn JS Seah
    • Mark HX Yeo
    • Hwee Weng Dennis Hey

    Review Article 25 March 2023 Pages: 1751 - 1762

    

29. Significance of paraspinal muscle quality in risk between single and multiple osteoporotic vertebral fractures

    • Hong Jin Kim
    • Jae Hyuk Yang
    • Young-Hoon Kim

    Original Article 28 March 2023 Pages: 1763 - 1770

    

30. May bending radiographs be replaced by magnetic resonance imaging in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis?

    • Max Prost
    • Melanie Elisabeth Röckner
    • Markus Rafael Konieczny

    Original Article Open access 29 March 2023 Pages: 1771 - 1776

    

31. Estimated cumulative radiation exposure in patients treated for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

    • J. Cool
    • G. J. Streekstra
    • B. J. van Royen

    Original Article Open access 21 March 2023 Pages: 1777 - 1786

    

32. Revision surgery following long lumbopelvic constructs for adult spinal deformity: prospective experience from two dedicated databases

    • Sleiman Haddad
    • Tatsuya Yasuda
    • European Spine Study Group

    Original Article 20 March 2023 Pages: 1787 - 1799

    

33. Domino connector for thoracic pedicle subtraction osteotomy reduction: surgical technique and patient series

    • Anouar Bourghli
    • Louis Boissiere
    • Ibrahim Obeid

    Original Article 20 March 2023 Pages: 1800 - 1809

    

34. Long-term patient-related quality of life outcomes and ICD-10 symptom rating (ISR) of patients with pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis: What is the psychological impact of this life-threatening disease?

    • Siegmund Lang
    • Nike Walter
    • Markus Rupp

    Original Article Open access 15 March 2023 Pages: 1810 - 1817

    

35. A prospective study to identify preoperative serum parameters for spinal implant infection detected by sonication fluid culture

    • Daniel García-Pérez
    • Guillermo García-Posadas
    • Igor Paredes

    Original Article 10 March 2023 Pages: 1818 - 1829

    

36. MRI image features with an evident relation to low back pain: a narrative review

    • Jasper W. van der Graaf
    • Robert Jan Kroeze
    • Miranda L. van Hooff

    Review Article Open access 09 March 2023 Pages: 1830 - 1841

    

37. Delayed response in rectus abdominis muscle following a step perturbation in subjects with and without recurrent low back pain

    • Paul S. Sung
    • Moon Soo Park

    Original Article 20 March 2023 Pages: 1842 - 1849

    

38. Letter to the Editor concerning "To pool or not to pool. Comment on 'The efficacy of primary sacroiliac joint fusion for low back pain caused by sacroiliac joint pathology: a systematic review and meta-analysis'" by A. Abbas, et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]: doi:10.1007/s00586-022–07291-y)

    • Mikhail Saltychev

    Letter to the Editor 24 February 2023 Pages: 1850 - 1852

    

39. Answer to the Letter to the Editor of M. Saltychev concerning “To pool or not to pool. Comment on ‘the efficacy of primary sacroiliac joint fusion for low back pain caused by sacroiliac joint pathology: a systematic review and meta-analysis’” by A. Abbas, et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]: doi: 10.1007/s00586-022-07291-y)

    • Aazad Abbas
    • Jin Tong Du
    • Joel A. Finkelstein

    Author's Reply 22 March 2023 Pages: 1853 - 1855

    

40. Letter to Editor concerning “Long-term outcome of redo discectomy for recurrent lumbar disc herniations” by Cunha et al. (Eur Spine J [2023]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-022-07493-4)

    • Vikash Raj
    • Sitanshu Barik
    • Vishal Kumar

    Letter to the Editor 16 March 2023 Pages: 1856 - 1857

41. Answer to the Letter to the Editor of V. Raj, et al. concerning: ‘’Long-term outcome of redo discectomy for recurrent lumbar disc herniations’’ by Cunha M. et al. (Eur Spine J [2023]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-022- 07493–4)

    • Marisa Cunha
    • P. S. Silva
    • P. Pereira

    Author's Reply 18 March 2023 Pages: 1858 - 1858

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    Announcements 08 April 2023 Pages: 1859 - 1859