Spine Center in the News

News Releases

• 2-Year Results: Artificial Disc a Viable Alternative to Fusion for 2-Level Disc Disease (May 20, 2011)
• For Patients with Back, Neck Pain, Artificial Disc Replacement Has Cost, Outcome Advantages Over Standard Fusion Surgery (March 18, 2011)
• Nationally Renowned Spine Surgeon Joins Cedars-Sinai Spine Center (April 27, 2009)
• Combined Minimally Invasive Procedures Offer New Option for Lumbar Degenerative Scoliosis (October 3, 2008)
• Minimally Invasive Spinal Fusion Yields Rapid Recovery; Puts Nursing Student Back on Track to Fulfilling Mid-Life Dream (June 4, 2008)
• Active Life Begins (Again) at 40 After Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery On Two Disks (January 22, 2008)
• Cedars-Sinai Physicians Elect William W. Brien, MD, as Chief of Staff (January 9, 2008)
• Back to School Safety: Avoiding Backpack Injury (August 10, 2006)
• Combining Endoscopic and Computer Technologies May Improve Safety, Accuracy and Efficiency of Complex Spinal Surgery (April 27, 2006)
  

Recently Published Medical and Scientific Articles

The spinal surgeons and researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center frequently write papers that are published in a wide variety of medical and scientific journals. Below are links to selections of these articles:

• "The Changing Role for Neurosurgeons and the Treatment of Spinal Deformity," J. Patrick Hohnson, MD; Robert S. Pashman, MD; Carl Lauryssen,MD, Neel Anand, MD; John J. Regan, MD, and Robert S. Bray, MD, Institute for Spinal Disorders, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, J Neurosurg Spine 2:233-242, 2005