Spine Surgery

Dr. Alexander Vaccaro is the Richard H. Rothman Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor of Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the recipient of the Leon Wiltse award given for excellence in leadership and clinical research for spine care by the North American Spine Society (NASS) and is the past President of the American Spinal Injury Association and current President of the Association for Collaborative Spine Research. He has over 530 peer reviewed and 195 non-peer reviewed publications. He has published over 300 book chapters and is the editor of over 44 textbooks and co-editor of OKU-Spine I and editor of OKU-8. Dr. Vaccaro is the President of Rothman Institute, Chairman of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Co-Director of the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley and Co-Director of Spine Surgery and the Spine Fellowship program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where he instructs current fellows and residents in the diagnosis and treatment of various spinal problems and disorders.

I. Cervical Spine A. Immobilization techniques 1. Closed cervical skeletal tong placement and reduction techniques, Michael J. Vives 2. Halo placement in the pediatric and adult patient, Howard S. An B. Anterior approaches 3. Transoral odontoid resection, Eli M. Baron, David Choi, James S. Harrop, Alexander R. Vaccaro, and H. Alan Crockard 4. Odontoid screw placement, Michael A. Finn, Daniel R. Fassett, and Ronald I. Apfelbaum 5. Anterior C1,C2 fusion arthrodesis, Eli M. Baron and Alexander R. Vaccaro 6. Anterior cervical corpectomy/diskectomy, David T. Anderson and Alan S. Hilibrand 7. Anterior resection of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL), Kern Singh, Alpesh A. Patel, and Alexander R. Vaccaro 8. Anterior cervical disk arthroplasty, Rick C. Sasso and Paul A. Anderson C. Posterior approaches 9. Occipital cervical reconstruction fusion, Howard B. Levene and Jack I. Jallo 10. C1-C2 fusion techniques, Joseph M. Zavatsky and Joon Y. Lee 11. Cervical spine: Lateral mass screw fixation, Kern Singh and Alexander R. Vaccaro 12. Cervical pedicle screw fixation, Moe R. Lim, Joon Y. Lee, and Kuniyoshi Abumi 13. Posterior cervical osteotomy techniques, Neel Anand and Brian Perri 14. Cervial laminoplasty, Chrisopher Brown, Jason Lowenstein, and S. Tim Yoon II. Thoracic Spine 15. Anterior thoracic diskectomy and corpectomy, Max C. Lee 16. Anterior thoracolumbar spinal fusion with single or dual rod instrumentation via open approach for idiopathic scoliosis, Peter G. Gabos 17. Operative management of Scheureman's kyphosis, Alok D. Sharan and Thomas Errico 18. Removal of intradural, intramedullary, or extramedullary spinal tumors, James S. Harrop, Ashwini Sharan, John Birkness, and John Ratliff 19. Endoscopic thoracoscopy diskectomy, Stepan Kasimian and J. Patrick Johnson 20. VEPTR opening wedge thoracostomy for congenital spinal deformities, Robert M. Campbell, Jr. 21. Posterior thoracolumbar fusion techniques for scoliosis - Lenke classification, Timothy R. Kuklo 22. Thoracoplasty for rib deformity, Suken A. Shah and Mohan Belthus 23. Complete vertebral resection for primary spinal tumors, Rick C. Sasso and Gregory D. Dikos Operative Techniques: Spine Surgery III. Lumbar Spine 24. Sacropelvic fixation, Tapan Dafari and Alexander R. Vaccaro 25. Posterior far lateral disk herniation, Chadi Tannoury, D. Greg Anderson, Alexander R. Vaccaro, and Todd J. Albert 26. The lateral extracavitary approach for vertebrectomy, Kene Ugokwe and Edward C. Benzel 27. Osteotomy techniques (Smith-Petersen and pedicle subtraction) for fixed sagittal imbalance, Keith H. Bridwell 28. Spondylolysis repair, Brian Walsh, Ernest Found, and Vincent C. Traynelis 29. Reduction of high grade spondylolisthesis, Rachana Tyagi and David Clements 30. Interspinous process motion sparing implant, Ralph J. Mobbs and Charles Fisher 31. Anterior lumbar interbody fusion, Michael D. Daubs 32. Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF), Jacob M. Buchowsku and Michael D. Daubs 33. Lumbar spine arthroplasty: Charite total disk replacement, Kern Singh, Demian M. Yakel, Bart Wojewnik, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Donna D. Ohnmeiss, and Scott L. Blumenthal 34. Kyphoplasty, Daniel Shedid and Isador H. Lieberman 35. Balloon assisted endplate reduction (BAER) techniques, F.C. Oner 36. Minimally invasive exposure techniques of the lumbar spine, D. Gregg Anderson 37. Hemivertebrae resection, Matias G. Petracchi and Oheneba Boachie-Adjei