MONDAY 26, E-CSRS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS, ROOM A-B

14.00 SEGMENTAL DEGENERATION, FUSION, ARTHROPLASTY
Chairs: José CASAMITJANA and André JACOWSKI
14.00 AB1 PLASMA DISC DECOMPRESSION COMPARED TO CONSERVATIVE CARE FOR TREATING CONTAINED CERVICAL DISC PROTRUSION: ONE YEAR RESULTS OF A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED STUDY
Alessandro Cesaroni, Piervittorio Nardi, Policlinico Casilino, U.O.C. Neurochirurgia, Roma,Italy
14.10 AB2 PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC CERVICAL DISCECTOMY USING A WORKING CHANNEL SCOPE AND SID E-FIRING LASER: SURGICAL TECHNIQUE AND CLINICAL RESULTS
Byeong-Wook Hwang, Sang-Joon Park, Gyoung-Beom Kim, Sang-Jin Lee, Sang-Ho Lee, Busan Wooridul Spine Hospital, Neurosurgery, Busan, South Korea
14.20 AB3 MULTI-LEVEL CERVICAL DISC DISEASE MANAGED BY ACDF WITH STAND-ALONE INTER VERTEBRAL CAGES: SAFE AND EFFECTIVE
John C D Leach, Erlick A C Pereira, Hari Chandran, Tom A D Cadoux-Hudson, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Neurosurgery, Oxford, United Kingdom
14.30 AB4 DBM + LOCAL BONE: 1-YEAR FOLLOW-UP IN 100 TWO-LEVEL ACDF PATIENTS
W. Blake Rodgers, Curtis S. Cox, Edward J. Gerber PA-C, Keisha K. Smith, Spine Midwest Inc., Orthopaedic, Jefferson City, United States
14.40 AB5 CERVICORE® DISC REPLACEMENT VS. FUSION, RESULTS FROM FOUR STUDY SITES IN A PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED, MULTICENTER TRIAL
Jeffrey Fischgrund, Rolando Garcia, Michael Gratch, Neill Wright, William Beaumont Hospital, Orthopaedics, Southfield, Michigan, United States
14.50 AB6 BRYAN CERVICAL DISC: RESULTS OF THE U.S. RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL V ACDF
John Heller, Emory Spine Center, Orthopaedic surgery, Atlanta, United States
15.00 AB7 RESULTS OF THE PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED, MULTI-CENTER FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION INVESTIGATIONAL DEVICE EXEMPTION STUDY OF THE PRODISC®-C TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT (TDR) VS. ANTERIOR DISCECTOMY AND FUSION
Daniel Murrey, Michael Janssen, Rick Delamarter, Jeff Goldstein, Jack Zigler, Bobby Tay, Bruce Darden, Charlotte Orthopedic Specialists, Charlotte, United States
15.10 AB8 BIOMECHANICS OF MULTILEVEL CERVICAL ARTHROPLASTY AND COMBINED ARTHRODESIS AND ARTHROPLASTY
Neil Crawford, Sam Safavi-Abbasi, Seungwon Baek, Phillip Reyes, Mehmet Senoglu, Volker Sonntag, Barrow Neurological Institute, Spinal Biomechanics, Phoenix, United States
15.20 UPPSALA PRESENTATION
C. Olerud
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 CERVICAL MYELOPATHY, Chairs: Jan GOFFIN and Dimitrios KORRES
16.00 AB9 A NOVEL QUANTITATIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TECHNIQUE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY
Erin MacMillan, Alex MacKay, Burkhard Mädler, David Li, Marcel Dvorak, Armin Curt, University of British Columbia, Physics & Astronomy, Vancouver, Canada
16.10 AB10 STUDY ON INTRAMEDULLARY SIGNAL INTENSITY CHANGES ON T2-WEIGHTED IMAGE OF THE CHRONIC CERVICAL MYELOPATHY USING HIGH TESLA MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
Hideki Murakami, Satoshi Yoshida, Kazuhiro Sato, Hirooki Endo, Ken Yamazaki, Tadashi Shimamura, Iwate Medical University, Orthopaedic Surgery, Morioka, Japan
16.20 AB11 “C5 PALSY” IS A PARTIAL SYMPTOM OF A TRANSIENT SPINAL CORD LESION
Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Takao Homma, Haruka Shimoda, Ko Takano, Niigata Spine Surgery Center, Niigata, Japan
16.30 AB12 POSITIVE LONG TRACT SIGNS CLOSELY CORRELATE WITH THE SEVERITY OF CERVICAL MYELOPATHY
Hirotaka Chikuda, Atsushi Seichi, Katsushi Takeshita, Naoki Shoda, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kozo Nakamura, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tokyo, Japan
16.40 AB13 10 SECOND STEPPING TEST AS A NEW QUANTIFIABLE PARAMETER OF CERVICAL MYELOPATHY
Yasutsugu Yukawa, Fumihiko Kato, Keigo Ito, Yuko Horie, Hiroaki Nakashima, Zen-ya Ito, Mitsunori Wakao, Chubu Rosai Hospital, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Nagoya, Japan
16.50 AB14 INTRAOPERATIVE SPINAL CORD MONITORING FOR CERVICAL LAMINOPLASTY
Nobuhiro Tanaka, Kazuyoshi Nakanishi, Hirofumi Sasaki, Kiyotaka Yamada, Risako Yamamoto, Toshio Nakamae, Mitsuo Ochi, Hiroshima University, Orthopaedic Surgery, Hiroshima, Japan
17.00 AB15 ANALYSIS OF FACTORS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MYELOPATHY IN PATIENTS WITH CERVICAL OPLL: STATIC FACTOR VERSUS DYNAMIC FACTOR
Takayuki Fujiyoshi, Masashi Yamazaki, Akihiko Okawa, Junko Kawabe, Kouichi Hayashi, Tomonori Endo, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Graduate school of medicine, Chiba university, Orthopaediac surgery, Chiba, Japan
17.10 AB16 SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY IN ATHETOID CEREBRAL PALSY
Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Shinnosuke Nakahara, Masaya Takahashi, Taro Yamauchi, Shinya Arataki, National Okayama Medical Center, Orthopedic Surgery, Okayama, Japan
17.20 AB17 SKIPED CORPECTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF MULTISEGMENTAL CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY AND OPLL
Sedat Dalbayrak, Mesut Yilmaz, Sait Naderi, Lutfi Kirdar Kartal Hospital, Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey
17.30 AB18 SELECTIVE LAMINOPLASTY AS A MINIMUM INVASIVE SURGERY FOR SINGLE OR CONSECUTIVE 2-LEVEL CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY - SURGICAL OUTCOMES OF 72 CASES
Masahiro Kato, Yoshiyuki Yato, Seiji Ueda, Satoshi Nori, Mitsukazu Nakamura, Tateru Shiraishi, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Orthopaedic Surgery, Tochigi, Japan
17.40 AB19 A NEW SURGICAL METHOD USING MICROENDOSCOPY FOR CERVICAL MYELOPATHY - A COMPARATIVE PROSPECTIVE STUDY BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL EXPANSIVE LAMINOPLASTY AND MICROENDOSCOPIC LAMINOPLASTY
Akihito Minamide, Munehito Yoshida, Hiroshi Yamada, Yukihiro Nakagawa, Masaki Kawai, Yoshio Enyo, Toru Endo, Wakayama Medical University, Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama, Japan
17.50 End of the day