ISSN 2039-4632 Updates from Spine Radiology vol. 2, n. 6.2011 an International Journal of Medical Sciences ISSN 2039-4632 ISBN 978-88-7587-627-2 Director and editor-in-chief Musiani Irio Medimond s.r.l. - Via G. Verdi 15/1, I-40065 Pianoro (Bologna) e-mail: [email protected] - www.medimond.com This journal was printed in December 2011 by EDITOGRAFICA s.r.l., www.editografica.com. © 2011 - Medimond s.r.l., Via G. Verdi 15/1, I-40065 Pianoro Bologna. All rights reserved. Single photocopies of single articles may be made for personal use. Written permission from the publisher is required for all other photocopying. Subscriber may reproduce tables of contents or prepare list of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the publisher is required for all other derivative works, including compilations, translations, electronic store and use, and transmissions in any form or by any means. Index Front page ........................................................................................................................... I The Art of Lumbar Diskography Bartynski, W . ....................................................................................................................... 553 Facet Joint Injections and Radiofrequency Ablation Bartynski, WS ...................................................................................................................... 559 Interventional Neuroradiology after Spine Surgery Bartynski, W . ....................................................................................................................... 565 Imaging of the Brachial Plexus Mauricio Castillo, MD, FACR . ............................................................................................... 571 MRI of acute spinal trauma Mauricio Castillo, MD, FACR . ............................................................................................... 577 Interventional treatment of spine metastases: ice and fire Chiras J., Cormier E., Clarençon F., Roedel B., Le Jean L., Rose M. ..................................... 583 Surgical treatment of intradural tumors Conesa G ............................................................................................................................. 595 Spinal stenosis Gallucci M, D’Orazio F. ......................................................................................................... 599 Functional restorement of the traumatized spinal: facts and fictions González-Viejo MA. MD, PhD ............................................................................................... 605 New materials for vertebral augmentation. Muto M., Guarnieri G., Zeccolini F. ....................................................................................... 613 Intraspinous devices, indications and results Muto M., Guarnieri G.,Izzo R. ............................................................................................... 623 Overview of disk treatment Muto M., Guarnieri G., Vassallo P. ........................................................................................ 629 Oncologist role in treatment of spinal metastasis Valverde Morales CM . ......................................................................................................... 639 ©2011 by MEDIMOND s.r.l. III IV ScienceMED, vol. 2, 6.2011, Bologna Imaging of the Postoperative Spine Van Goethem J, van den Hauwe L, Venstermans C, De Belder F, Parizel P .......................... 645 From a computational model of a human lumbosacral segment to a finite element (fe) analisys of a real working spine Cartolari Roberto, Boffi Patrizia, Solaro Pierpaolo, Pupilla Eliana, Moramarco Vincenzo, Uva Antonio E., Pappalettere Carmine, Martellotta Niccolò, Zaccaria Tommaso, Lorusso Nicola ..................................................................................................................... 649 High-viscosity cement VS low-viscosity cement in percutaneous vertebroplasty. Our experience in 560 patients Natrella M., Duc L., Lunardi G., Cristoferi M., Rosanò A., Fanelli G., Machado D., Meloni T. . 655 Chemonucleolysis in disk herniation: our experience in 315 cases Natrella M., Duc L., Cristoferi M., Rosanò A., Fanelli G., Machado D., Furfaro D., Meloni T. . 659 Author Index ........................................................................................................................ 663 Author Index Bartynski W, 553, 565 Bartynski WS, 559 Boffi Patrizia, 649 Cartolari Roberto, 649 Chiras J., 583 Clarençon F., 583 Conesa G, 595 Cormier E., 583 Cristoferi M., 655, 659 D’Orazio F., 599 De Belder F, 645 Duc L., 655, 659 Fanelli G., 655, 659 Furfaro D., 659 Gallucci M, 599 González-Viejo MA, 605 Guarnieri G., 613, 623, 629 Izzo R., 623 Le Jean L., 583 Lorusso Nicola, 649 Lunardi G., 655 Machado D., 655, 659 ©2011 by MEDIMOND s.r.l. Martellotta Niccolò, 649 Mauricio Castillo, 571, 577 Meloni T., 655, 659 Moramarco Vincenzo, 649 Muto M., 613, 623, 629 Natrella M., 655, 659 Pappalettere Carmine, 649 Parizel P, 645 Pupilla Eliana, 649 Roedel B., 583 Rosanò A., 655, 659 Rose M., 583 Solaro Pierpaolo, 649 Uva Antonio E., 649 Valverde Morales CM, 639 van den Hauwe L, 645 Van Goethem J, 645 Vassallo P., 629 Venstermans C, 645 Zaccaria Tommaso, 649 Zeccolini F., 613 663