Editorial

THE EFFECT OF A NEW MODIFICATION OF THE GROWING ROD TECHNIQUE ON THE SUCCESS RATE: DISTAL AND PROXIMAL PEDICLE SCREW FIXATION, DUAL ROD APPLICATION AND ROUTINE LENGTHENING AT EVERY 6 MONTHS

• Houman AHMADI
• Z. Deniz OLGUN
• Muharrem YAZICI

Original Article

LENGTH OF THE TRAJECTORY OF ANTERIOR ODONTOID SCREW IN ADULT TURKISH POPULATION: A MORPHOMETRIC STUDY

• Uygur ER
• İ.Teoman BENLI

VASCULAR INJURY USING THE CERVICAL SPINE TRANSARTICULAR SCREW FIXATION

• Kadir KOTIL
• Neslihan SUTPİDELER

SALVAGE OF FAILED SACRAL PEDICLE SCREW: BIOMECHANICAL COMPARISON OF ALA SCREW, BIGGER PEDICLE SCREW, POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE AUGMENTED PEDICLE SCREW

• Alihan DERINCEK
• Cenk BALÇIK
• Murat ÇINAR
• Mustafa UYSAL
• Metin ÖZALAY

THE ANGULAR SAFE ZONE FOR THE FREE HAND TECHNIQUE TRANPEDICULAR SCREW APPLICATION IN THE THORACIC AND LUMBAR FRESH CALF SPINE

• Burak AKAN
• İ. Teoman BENLİ
• Doğaç KARAGÜVEN
• Murat KÖKEN
• Özgür BÜLBÜL
• Tuğrul YILDIRIM
• Selçuk ÖZDOĞAN

THE ACCURACY OF COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHYIN CLASSIFYING THE PENETRATIONS OF THE SCREWS INSERTED IN THE LUMBAR VERTEBRAE USING THE FUNNEL TECHNIQUE, THROUGH THE PEDICLES AND THE CORPUS AS CRITICAL OR NON-CRITICAL

• Nikola AZAR
• Y.Emre AKMAN
• Erhan DALYAMAN
• Onat ÜZÜMCÜGİL
• Yavuz S. KABUKÇUOĞLU
• Ahmet DOĞAN

TREATMENT OF ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS WITH GLOBAL (ROD) DEROTATION MANEUVER USING PEDICLE SCREWS

• Ozcan Kaya
• Turgut Akgul
• Okan Ozkunt
• Fatih Dikici
• Onder Yazicioglu
• Unsal Domanic

MORPHOMETRY OF THE SUBAXIAL CERVICAL SPINE PEDICLES IN THE ANATOLIAN POPULATION

• Murat Sayın
• İlker Deniz Cingöz
• Sinan Bahadır
• Selim Ayhan
• Cüneyt Temiz

SHORT-SEGMENT PEDICLE SCREW FIXATION INCLUDING PEDICLE SCREW AT THE FRACTURED LEVEL FOR TREATMENT OF UNSTABLE THORACOLUMBAR FRACTURES

• Murat KORKMAZ
• Turgut AKGÜL
• Okan OZKUNT
• Kerim SARIYILMAZ
• Natig VALİYEV
• Fatih DİKİCİ

THE EFFECT OF PEDICLE SCREWS AND HOOKS ON PROXIMAL JUNCTIONAL KYPHOSIS APPLIED TO THE SUPERIOR VERTEBRA DURING POSTERIOR SURGERY OF ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS

• Mert ÖZCAN
• Seyhan SAĞIROĞLU
• Cem ÇOPUROĞLU
• Mert ÇİFTDEMİR
• Erol YALNIZ

THE EFFECT OF POSTERIOR PEDICLE SCREW-ONLY CONSTRUCTS ON CORONAL AND SAGITTAL PLANE CORRECTIONIN ADOLESCENTIDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS

• Yetkin SÖYÜNCÜ
• Hüseyin BALKARLI
• Haluk ÖZCANLİ
• F. Feyyaz AKYILDIZ

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PEDICLE SCREW VERSUS HYBRID INSTRUMENTATION IN POSTERIOR SPINAL CORRECTION AND FUSION OF ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS

• Onat ÜZÜMCÜGİL
• Yunus ATICI
• Kaddafi DUYMUŞ
• Erhan ŞÜKÜR
• Merter YALÇINKAYA
• Murat MERT
• Mustafa CANİKLİOĞLU

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HYBRID AND PEDICLE SCREW TECHNIQUES REGARDING THE SRS-22 QUESTIONNAIRE

• Alpaslan ŞENKÖYLÜ
• Anıl TAŞKESEN
• Baybars ATAOĞLU
• Mustafa ÖZER
• Necdet ALTUN

DETERMINATION OF THE MAXIMUM SCREW LENGTH IN FIRST LUMBAR VERTEBRAE

• Cem ÇOPUROĞLU
• Mert ÇİFTDEMİR
• Mert ÖZCAN
• Murat KAYA
• Erol YALNIZ

COMPARISON OF SEGMENTAL VERSUS HYBRID INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ADOLESCENTIDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS

• Ali Akın UĞRAŞ
• Mehmet Kürşat BAYRAKTAR
• M. Fehmi AKYILDIZ
• Murat YILMAZ
• Ercan ÇETİNUS

IMPACT OF INTERBODY FUSION IN DEGENERATIVE VERTEBRAE ON SACRAL PEDICLE SCREW SURVIVAL

• Okan ÖZKUNT
• Turgut AKGÜL
• Kerim SARIYILMAZ
• Murat KORKMAZ
• Fatih DİKİCİ
• Ufuk TALU
• Cüneyt ŞAR

CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL RESULTS OF LAMINECTOMY AND POSTEROLATERAL SCREW FIXATION IN THE TREATMENT OF CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY

• Durmuş Oğuz Karakoyun
• Ali Dalgıç

COMPARISON OF TWO POSTERIOR INSTRUMENTATION TECHNIQUES IN MULTILEVEL CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY TREATMENT: LATERAL MASS SCREW FIXATION VS PEDICLE SCREW FIXATION

• Semih Kıvanç Olguner
• Ali Arslan
• Vedat Açık
• Salih Burak Kutlu
• Barış Arslan
• Ali İhsan Ökten
• Yurdal Gezercan

THE EVALUATION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN THE RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND THE CLINICAL OUTCOMEIN THE SURGICALLY TREATED THORACOLUMBAR BURST FRACTURES

• Onat ÜZÜMCÜGİL
• Y. Emre AKMAN
• Nikola AZAR
• Mehmet YETİŞ
• Ahmet DOĞAN

CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL COMPARISON OF SPINOPELVIC FIXATION METHODS: S2-ALAR-ILIAC SCREW VERSUS CONVENTIONAL ILIAC SCREW IN LONG SEGMENT FUSION

• Ali ARSLAN
• Semih Kıvanç OLGUNER
• İsmail İSTEMEN
• Vedat AÇIK
• Yurdal GEZERCAN

THE RELIABILITY AND ACCURACY OF RADIOGRAPHS IN THE ASSESSMENT OF PEDICLE SCREW PLACEMENT; A COMPARISON WITH COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY

• Gürkan Gümüşsuyu
• Ömer Faruk Kılıçaslan
• Vugar Nabi
• Mehmet Barış Ertan
• Özkan Köse

COMPARING RESULTS OF POSTERIOR CERVICAL FACET JOINT CAGE STABILIZATION WITH LATERAL MASS FIXATION IN CERVICAL FORAMINAL STENOSIS

• Aykut Sezer
• Mesut Uluöz
• Can Sezer

TRADITIONAL TRAINING VERSUS VIRTUAL REALITY AND HAPTIC ENABLED SIMULATION TRAINING FOR POSTERIOR CERVICAL SCREW PLACEMENT

• Gökhan Kürşat Kara
• Kayhan Turan
• Yalkın Çamurcu
• Cüneyt Erdoğan
• Ramazan Erden Ertürer
• Erol Yalnız
• Çağatay Öztürk
• Ufuk Aydınlı

EFFICIENCY OF SILVER-COATED TITANIUM ALLOY SCREWS IN THE PREVENTION OF IMPLANT-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS

• Nesrin Akkoyun Kayran
• Melih Üçer
• Ali Ender Ofluoğlu

COMPARISON OF TITANIUM SCREW WITH POLYESTER BAND WITH CLAMP (LOTUS) AND RIGID TITANIUM TRANSVERSE BINDER SYSTEM USING THE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

• Birol ÖZKAL
• Can YALDIZ
• Mete KARATAY
• Haydar ÇELİK
• Deniz KARABULUT
• Iman ZAFARPARANDAH
• Onur YAMAN
• İhsan SOLAROĞLU
• Fahir ÖZER

RESULTS OF PONTE’S OSTEOTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF RIGID ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS

• Sinan YILAR
• Ahmet Arif UZUN

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF NEUROMUSCULAR SCOLIOSIS

• Turgut AKGÜL
• Fatih DİKİCİ
• Cüneyt ŞAR
• Ünsal DOMANİÇ
• Ufuk TALU

MONOAXIAL PEDICLE SCREWS WITH SUBLAMINAR FIXATIONS IN THE CORRECTION OF ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS

• Kayhan Turan
• Gökhan Kürşat Kara
• Yalkın Çamurcu
• Yusuf Onur Kızılay
• Yunus Uysal
• Ufuk Aydınlı

POSTERIOR ONLY SURGERY FOR RIGID SCOLIOTIC CURVES PROGRESSED ABOVE 80 DEGREES: DOES IT YIELD SUFFICIENT CORRECTION?

• Tuna Pehlivanoğlu
• Mustafa Özdemir
• Murat Korkmaz
• Özcan Kaya
• Şahin Karalar
• Turgut Akgül
• Fatih Dikici

SURGICAL PRINCIPLES IN POSTERIOR TRANSPEDICULAR SCREW FIXATION AND FUSION FOR TREATMENT OF SPONDYLOLISTHESIS: RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF 77 CASES

• Güray BULUT
• Murat Hamit AYTAR
• Abuzer GÜNGÖR

PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF ADDING DYNAMIC SCREWS TO UPPER FUSION SEGMENT IN PATIENTS WITH DEGENERATIVE LUMBAR SPINE

• Erdinç ÖZEK
• Anas ABDALLAH

PEDICLE WALL THICKNESS OF THE LUMBAR SPINE AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE LUMBAR SPINE INSTRUMENTATION PROCEDURES: A RADIOANATOMICAL STUDY

• KADİR KOTİL
• AHMET ŞENGÖZ

C1–2 POSTERIOR STABILIZATION IN ODONTOID FRACTURES

• M. Özgür TAŞKAPILIOĞLU
• Elif BAŞARAN
• Ulaş AKTAŞ
• Şeref DOĞAN

RESULTS OF POSTERIOR-ONLY ALL PEDICLE SCREW INSTRUMENTATION IN THE SURGİCAL TREATMENT OF SCHEUERMANNʼS KYPHOSIS

• Onat ÜZÜMCÜGİL
• Yunus ATICI
• Kaddafi DUYMUŞ
• Ali V. ÖZLÜK
• Erhan ŞÜKÜR
• Mustafa CANİKLİOĞLU

LONG-TERM FAILURE OF DYNAMIC RODS USED IN FULL DYNAMIC STABILIZATION

• Mehmet Yiğit Akgün
• Özkan Ateş
• Caner Günerbüyük
• Mehmet Kürşat Karadağ
• Ali Fahir Özer

NEW TECHNIQUE FOR ADDITIONAL SUPPORT POINT TO IMPROVE THE STABILITY OF PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEMS

• Togrul CALILOV
• Cem ALBAY
• Yashar CALILOV

WHICH IMAGING METHOD IS MORE EFFECTIVE IN LATERAL MASS SCREW PLACEMENT: O-ARM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY OR X-RAY?

• Mehmet Ozan Durmaz
• Mehmet Can Ezgü
• Gardaskhan Karımzada
• Adem Doğan

QUANTITATIVE ANATOMICAL EVALUATION OF C7 VERTEBRA IN TURKISH POPULATION IN ORDER TO IMPLANTATION OF LATERAL MASS AND PEDICULE SCREWS

• Sinan ERDOĞAN
• Serkan ARIBAL

DOES THE SAGITTAL ORIENTATION OF THE PEDICLE SCREW AFFECT BIOMECHANICAL STABILITY? A FINITE ELEMENT STUDY

• H Bahadir GOKCEN

ALL LEVELS PEDICLE SCREW FOR DECOMPRESSION AND CORRECTION IN DEGENERATIVE LUMBAR SPINE SCOLIOSIS: SHORT-TERM RESULTS

• Uzay ERDOGAN
• Hakan KINA
• Orhun M. CEVIK
• A. Ender OFLUOGLU

A SURGICAL ERROR RESULTING IN PROXIMAL JUNCTIONAL KYPHOSIS IN TREATMENT OF ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS

• Serkan BAYRAM
• Şahin KARALAR
• Caner GÜNERBÜYÜK
• Murat ALTAN
• Yusif ZEYNALOV
• Turgut AKGÜL
• Ufuk TALU

THE MORPHOMETRY OF THORACIC PEDICLES AND PEDICLE-RIB UNITS AND THEIR RELATIONS TO AORTA: AN MRI STUDY

• Levent KARAPINAR
• Nuri EREL
• Ahmet KAYA
• Taşkın ALTAY

FUNCTIONAL AND RADIOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THORACOLUMBAR / LUMBAR ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS (AIS) TREATMENT WITH POSTERIOR PEDICLE SCREWS

• İbrahim Oğuz ÖZKAVAK
• Yetkin SÖYÜNCÜ
• Hakan ÖZDEMİR
• Kürşat DABAK

EVALUATION OF SCREW MALPOSITION BY RADIOGRAPHY IN LENKE TYPE 1 ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS PATIENTS HAVING UNDERGONE SELECTIVE FUSION

• Barış POLAT
• Ayşe Esin POLAT
• Yunus ATICI
• Doğaç KARAGÜVEN
• Sinan ERDOĞAN
• İ. Teoman BENLİ

THE RESULTS OF THE ADOLESCENTIDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS PATIENTS TREATED WITH POSTERIOR SEGMENTAL PEDICLE SCREW METHOD

• Turgut AKGÜL
• Gökhan POLAT
• Ufuk TALU
• Ünsal DOMANİÇ

THE FACTORS AFFECTING FUSION AFTER ANTERIOR ODONTOID SCREW FIXATION FOR TYPE II ODONTOID FRACTURES: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF 12 CONSECUTIVE PATIENTS

• Anas ABDALLAH
• Ali Ender OFLUOĞLU

TRANSPEDICULAR FIXATION IN FRACTURE-DISLOCATIONS OF THE CERVICAL SPINE: TWO YEARSʼ EXPERIENCE

• Kadir KOTİL
• Ahmet ŞENGÖZ
• Neslihan SÜTPİDELER
• Veysel ANTAR

DOES CORRECTION OF SCHEUERMANNʼS KYHPOSIS POSSIBLE BY ONLY POSTERIOR APPROACH AND SEGMENTAL PEDICLE SCREW FIXATION?

• Yetkin SÖYÜNCÜ
• İ. Ayder GÜLTEN
• F. Feyyaz AKYILDIZ
• Hakan ÖZDEMİR
• Mustafa ÜRGÜDEN
• A. Merter ÖZENCİ

PERCUTANEOUS ILIOSACRAL SCREW PLACEMENT FOR SACRAL FRACTURES

• Ali Akın UĞRAŞ
• Murat YILMAZ
• Nurullah ŞENER
• Musa KORKMAZ
• Ercan ÇETİNUS

PERCUTANEOUS AND OPEN PEDICLE SCREW FIXATION FOR TRAUMATIC SPINE FRACTURES

• Arjan BOT
• Jorrit-Jan VERLAAN
• Andy B. SPOOR
• Agnita STADHOUDER
• Ümit Ö GÜLER
• F. Cumhur ÖNER

DOES THE NECESSARY PEDICLE SCREW FIXATION OF THE TLIF PROCEDURE FOR THE FUSION? A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL

• Kadir KOTIL
• Ahmet SENGOZ
• Güzin OZDEMIR
• Yıldıray SAVAS

Original Articles

PEDICLE SCREW MONITORING BY PEDICLE STIMULATING PROBE IN SPINAL SURGERY

• Burak AKESEN
• Müren MUTLU
• Kürşat KARA
• Aysun YILMAZLAR
• Ufuk AYDINLI

THE MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PEDICULE DIAMETERS IN THE THORACOLUMBAR REGION IN ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS

• Bülent ÇAPAR
• Doğaç KARAGÜVEN
• İ. Teoman BENLİ
• Selçuk ÇAMUŞÇU
• Çağatay Tuğrul ÖZSEÇEN

Case Report

DISTAL MIGRATION OF THE RODS OF A CONSTRAINED POLYAXIAL PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM

• Tiro MMOPELWA
• Prashant ADHIKARI
• Vugar NABI
• Selim AYHAN
• Emre ACAROĞLU

PERCUTANEOUS FIXATION OF U-TYPE FRACTURE OF SACRUM

• Ali Akın UĞRAŞ
• Murat YILMAZ
• İbrahim KAYA
• Yasin KOYUNCU

VERTEBRAL BODY FRACTURE IN THE MIDDLE OF FUSED SEGMENTS AFTER REMOVAL OF PEDICLE SCREWS WITHOUT A HISTORY OF INJURY: A REPORT OF TWO CASES

• Jong-yun WOO
• Jae-Hyeon LIM
• Il-Tae JANG

PERCUTANEOUS SACROPLASTY FOR THE TREATMENT OF SACRAL PEDICLE SCREW LOOSENING IN AN OSTEOPOROTIC PATIENT

• İlker ÇÖVEN
• Fikret ŞAHİNTÜRK

LUMBAR VERTEBRAL PAGET’S DISEASE TREATED WITH PERCUTANEOUS TRANSPEDICULAR SCREW FIXATION AND VERTEBROPLASTY

• Ahmet KARAKAŞLI
• İsmail Safa SATOĞLU
• Ömer AKÇALI

PULMONARY CEMENT EMBOLISM AFTER SEGMENTAL POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE-AUGMENTED PEDICLE SCREW FIXATION

• Metin ÖZALAY
• Gürkan ÖZKOÇ

L5–S1 SPONDYLOPTOSIS TREATED BY A SINGLESTAGE POSTERIOR APPROACH: AN ALTERNATIVE TECHNIQUE

• A. Ender OFLUOĞLU
• Ömer Batu HERGÜNSEL
• Serhat BAYDIN
• Ömür GÜNALDI
• Erhan EMEL

Review Article

CROSS LAMINAR SCREW FIXATION OF THE AXIS

• Hüseyin ÖZEVREN
• Ramazan KAHVECI
• Emre Cemal GÖKCE