Klassifikation HWS-Verletzung

Die AO-Spine, die weltgrösste internationale Wirbelsäulenchirurgie-Organisation, hat eine neue Klassifikation der cervikalen Verletzungen veröffentlicht. Ich finde sie sehr gut und einfach und verständlich. Dankenswerterweise haben die Kollegen um Prof. Alex Vaccaro gleich ein Video veröffentlicht. Ich kann es nur empfehlen. Es ist in englischer Sprache. Mehr Informationen über Klassifikationen erhalten Sie…

missed diagnosis in traumatic spine

How could it happen, that we've missed this fracture? This question is often heard. Even in the age of CT-scan and MRI and a huge number of highly trained and specialized spine surgeons - nearly every day, there are missed spinal injuries. It's on us to teach all these emergency physicians…

systematic reviews

This is a service for my followers/visitors, who are looking for an easier pubmed-search. I will post here on this sites quite often direct links to systematic reviews in spine surgery, which are published on pubmed. The algorithm is very easy: go to the "clinical queries" section on pubmed an…

Treatment of isolated cervical facet fractures: a systematic review

There is a new publication about isolated facet fractures (here). The list of authors is a list of the well known AO Spine experts. Most of them contributed to the new AO Spine classification of thoracolumbar spine injuries and cervical spine injuries. Their work is very important for us, because they…