Spine

The federal government sued a Kenosha, Wis.-based neurosurgeon to recover a $5 million tax penalty assessed against him in 2013, according to the Journal Sentinel.

Kern Singh, MD, is co-director of the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at Rush and a partner at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, both in Chicago. He is an internationally known expert in minimally invasive spine surgery and has earned recognition for…

Here are seven spine and neurosurgeons making headlines.

Here are seven spine and neurosurgeons who recently received honors, promotions or published work.

A natural language processing system helped identify lumbar spine imaging findings, providing significant gains in model sensitivity, according to a study in Academic Radiology.

Older age, lower educational attainment and urban residency were associated with greater pain after lumbar microdiscectomy, according to a study in the European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology.

Spine surgery is very delicate while also intense. Issada Thongtrangan, MD, knows this as a spine surgeon at Minimally Invasive Spine in Phoenix.

Three spine surgeons discuss how they stay on top of clinical documentation.

Michael Steinmetz, MD, is chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Cleveland Clinic. He has expertise in minimally invasive surgery, complex spine surgery, trauma and spinal cord injury.

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin explored the effects of spinal cord injuries on the circadian system.