Spine

Seven spine surgeons discuss the key qualities of great spine specialists.

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for May 17, 2018.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently revealed that now-deceased spine surgeon Cyril Raben, MD, continued practicing medicine after surrendering his license and collected thousands from Medicare before his death.

Racial and socioeconomic disparities persist in cervical spine fusion procedure utilization in New York state, according to a study in Spine.

After being indicted Dec. 4, 2017, for bankruptcy fraud, a district court judge set Cathleen Van Burskirk's, MD, trial for May, the Daily Camera reports.

It took only a few hours for a Dallas County jury to convict neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch, MD, of first-degree felony for endangering an elderly woman in the operating room, the Sarasota Legal Examiner reports.

From 2009 to 2011, the average cost of an ambulatory care visit for patients with a spine condition was $3,077, according to The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States.

There is a high total hip arthroplasty dislocation rate among patients with concurrent spinopelvic fusion, according to a study in The Journal of Arthroplasty.

North Little Rock-based Arkansas Surgical Hospital welcomed Phillip Porcelli, DO.

Spine surgeons and interventional spine physicians who wish to practice endoscopic spine surgery should be required to complete formal training, according to spine surgeons at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in a Journal of Spine article.