Spine

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.

Back in 2012, Michael Vitale, MD, chief of pediatric spine and scoliosis surgery at New York City-based NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Orthopedics, realized that there was a great opportunity to improve the safety of spine surgery. To call attention to the…

Here are 10 spine surgeon and neurosurgeons making headlines.

Neurosurgeon Dan Surdell, MD, and rhinologist Christie Barnes, MD, performed a cerebrospinal fluid leak repair at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha on a woman whose CSF leaked out of her nose for two years, USA Today reports.

The same day the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released its disease control investigation at Denver-based Porter Adventist Hospital, a spine surgeon stopped surgery mid-procedure due to allegedly dirty equipment, according to 9 News.

Here are 10 spine surgeon leaders to know.