Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has reclassified pedicle screw systems from a preamendments class III device to a class II device with ...

A new, highly accurate, neuromonitoring method that can be used during thoracic spine surgery to prevent malpositioning of pedicle screws such that they enter the spinal canal and possibly cause ...

Pedicle screws are often used to secure surgically implanted hardware to the spine in patients with spinal disease or spinal trauma. In some cases, these screws loosen over time, leading to spinal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Use of navigation for spinal surgery can help spine surgeons accurately place ...

AUDUBON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Globus Medical, Inc. (NYS: GMED) , a leading musculoskeletalimplant manufacturer, today announced that the company will be launching CREO™, its next generation pedicle ...

Plainsboro, N.J.-based Integra LifeSciences, a leader in regenerative medicine, has announced that the first surgery using Integra Spine’s Paramount Pedicle Screw System for minimally invasive spine ...

Background The operative treatment of adult degenerative scoliosis combined with osteoporosis increase following the epidemiological development. Studies have confirmed that screws in osteoporotic ...

In this paper, the authors demonstrate a significant association between pedicle screw loosening and the presence of low-virulent pathogens on spinal implants. Pedicle screws are often used to secure ...

Highridge Medical has purchased the FlareHawk and Toro expandable interbody fusion systems, along with the LineSider pedicle screw system from Accelus, a provider of expandable spinal implant ...

A total of 31 patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis combined with osteoporosis underwent fusion with pedicle screw instrumentation from December 2000 to December 2006. All patients had Dual ...