Volume 16, Issue 2, July 2020

Special Issue: Current Concepts in Spinal Fusion

Guest Editors: Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, MBA, and Sohrab Virk, MD, MBA

Editorial

• The Advances in the Science and Clinical Practice of Spinal Fusion Are Real
  Charles N. Cornell, MD

Guest Editorial

• Open Access: Current Concepts in Spinal Fusion: A Special Issue
  Sohrab Virk, MD, MBA, and Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, MBA

Commentary

• Technologies to Enhance Spinal Fusion: Bench to Bedside
  Allison C. Greene, MPH, and Wellington K. Hsu, MD
• The Importance of Surface Technology in Spinal Fusion
  Yoshihiro Katsuura, MD, Joshua Wright-Chisem, MD, Adam Wright-Chisem, MD, Sohrab Virk, MD, and Steven McAnany, MD

Original Articles

• Open Access: A Case Series That Supports the Application of the S2AI Technique for Fractures and Failures After Lumbosacral Fusion
  Jeffrey H. Weinreb, MD, Uchechi Iweala, MD, MBA, Lauren E. Matteini, MD, Warren D. Yu, MD, and Joseph R. O’Brien, MD, MPH
• Etiology of Lumbosacral Radiculoplexopathy: Sacral Insufficiency Fracture on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  Christian Geannette, MD, Susan C. Lee, MD, and Darryl B. Sneag, MD
• Etiology-Based Classification of Adjacent Segment Disease Following Lumbar Spine Fusion
  Philip K. Louie, MD, Garrett K. Harada, MD, Arash J. Sayari, MD, Benjamin C. Mayo, MD, Jannat M. Khan, BS, Arya G. Varthi, MD, Alem Yacob, MD, Dino Samartzis, DSc, and Howard S. An, MD
• History of Spinal Fusion: Where We Came from and Where We Are Going
  Sohrab Virk, MD, MBA, Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, MBA, and Harvinder Sandhu, MD

Review Article

• Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: What Is the Evidence of Indirect Neural Decompression? A Systematic Review of the Literature
  Matteo Formica, MD, Emanuele Quarto, MD, Andrea Zanirato, MD, Lorenzo Mosconi, MD, Davide Vallerga, MD, Irene Zotta, MD, Maddalena Lontaro Baracchini, MD, Carlo Formica, MD, and Lamberto Felli, MD
• Strategies to Achieve Spinal Fusion in Multilevel Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery: An Overview
  Michael H. McCarthy, MD, MPH, Joseph A. Weiner, MD, and Alpesh A. Patel, MD, FACS
• Interbody Fusions in the Lumbar Spine: A Review
  Ravi Verma, MD, MBA, Sohrab Virk, MD, MBA, and Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, MBA
• Minimally Invasive Spine Lumbar Surgery in Obese Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  Yahya A. Othman, Abduljabbar Alhammoud, MD, Osama Aldahamsheh, MBBCh, Avani S. Vaishnav, MBBS, Catherine Himo Gang, MPH, and Sheeraz A. Qureshi, MD, MBA
• New Strategies in Enhancing Spinal Fusion
  Yoshihiro Katsuura, MD, Karim Shafi, MD, Chelsie Jacques, BS, Sohrab Virk, MD, MBA, Sravisht Iyer, MD, and Matthew Cunningham, MD, PhD
• Surgical Strategies for the Treatment of Lumbar Pseudarthrosis in Degenerative Spine Surgery: A Literature Review and Case Study
  Peter B. Derman, MD, MBA, and Kern Singh, MD
• Posterior Fusion for the Subaxial Cervical Spine: A Review of the Major Techniques
  Christopher M. Mikhail, MD, James E. Dowdell III, MD, and Andrew C. Hecht, MD
• Advances in Spinal Fusion Strategies in Adult Deformity Surgery
  Jeremy Steinberger, MD, Philip York, MD, Sohrab Virk, MD, MBA, and Han Jo Kim, MD

Surgical Technique

• Awake Endoscopic Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Technical Note
  Alexander J. Butler, MD, G. Damian Brusko, BS, and Michael Y. Wang, MD