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Computer assisted surgery
Surgery for disc prolapse
Deformity correction
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Lumbar disc prolapse
Lumbar canal stenosis
Cervical disc prolapse
Cervical myelopathy
Cervical disc replacement
Fractures of thoracolumbar spine
Fractures of the cervical spine
Scoliosis
Spondylolisthesis
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Sacroiliac joint block injection
Selective nerve root block
Facet joint injections
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Department of Spine Surgery - Publications

 

 

The unit has many national and international publications to its credit.

 

International Publications

1.

A review of post-contrast MRI Studies on Diffusion of Human lumbar discs”.

Dr. S. Rajasekaran, Dr. J. Naresh Babu, Dr Murugan S
JMRI 2007: Volume 25,  410-418.

2.

Morphological Changes During Growth in Healed Childhood Spinal Tuberculosis:  A 15-year Prospective Study of 61 Children Treated With Ambulatory Chemotherapy"

J Pediatr Orthop Vol 26, No.5, Nov/December 2006
Dr. S. Rajasekaran, Dr. Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Dr J Dheenadhayalan, Dr J Shashidhar Reddy, Dr J Naresh Babu, Dr Thomas Kishen

3. Randomized Clinical Study to Compare the Accuracy of Navigated and Non-Navigated Thoracic Pedicle Screws in Deformity Correction Surgeries"

SPINE Vol 32, No.2, 2007
Dr. S. Rajasekaran, Dr. S Vidyadhara, Dr Perumal Ramesh, Dr Ajoy P. Shetty

4 Widespread metastases from acinic cell carcinoma of parotid gland ” 

Singapore Med J 2007; 48(1): 1
Dr Vidyadhara S, Dr Shetty AP,  Dr Rajasekaran S

5 ISSLS Prize Winner: A Study of Diffusion in Human Lumbar Discs:
A Serial Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study Documenting the Influence of
the Endplate on Diffusion in Normal and Degenerate Discs”

SPINE 2004: Volume 29, No.23: 2654-2667
Dr. S. Rajasekaran, Dr. J. Naresh Babu, Dr. R. Arun, Dr. B. Roy Wilson Armstrong, Dr. Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Dr. Subramaniam Murugan

6 Spontaneous complete recovery of paraplegia caused by epidural hematoma complicating epidural anesthesia: a case report and review of literature.

Spinal Cord 2005 (Published online).
Dr. S Rajasekaran, Dr. CK SreeHarsha, Dr P Dhanasekar Raja

7 Phantom-Limb Pain due to Cervical Spinal Tuberculosis”- A Case Report

JBJS 2004
Dr. S. Rajasekaran, Dr. Yogesh K. Pithwa

8 Preemptive Analgesia for Postoperative Pain Relief in Lumbosacral Spine Surgeries: A Randomized Controlled Trial”

The Spine Journal 2004
Dr. S. Rajasekaran, Dr. C. Sekar, Dr. Rajesh Kannan, Dr. Shashidhar Reddy, Dr. T. Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Dr. Yogesh K. Pithwa

9 “Inflammatory Disorders of Spine” I st Edition. Chapter 10. “Childhood Spinal Tuberculosis”

Edited by S. Govender; J. C. Y. Leong. TTG Asia Media Pte Ltd Singapore.Pages 10-01 to 11. Dr. S. Rajasekaran

10 “Tuberculosis of Spine ” .

Edited by N.Herkowitz, Jiri Dvorak,Gordon Bell, Margareta Nordin And
Dieter grob.,

Text Book The Lumbar Spine, 3rd edition, Chapter 79  Pages 755.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Dr. S. Rajasekaran

11 Baastrup's Disease as a Cause of  Neurogenic Claudication A Case Report SPINE Volume 28, Number 14, pp E273 E275

Dr  S. Rajasekaran and Dr Yogesh K. Pithwa
12 The Problem Of Deformity In Spinal Tuberculosis”  Clinical Orthopaedics and Related  Research Number 398, pp.85-92,2002

Dr S Rajasekaran
13

Chapter On  “Spinal Tuberculosis"  in Oxford Text book  of  Orthopaedics & Trauma - Oxford University Press, UK
Volume 2: Pg No: 1545 –1561,2002

Dr S Rajasekaran

14 The Natural History Of Post- Tubercular Kyphosis In Children And The Patterns Of Progress Under The Period Of Growth”

J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2001;83-B:954-62
Dr S Rajasekaran
15 Chapter On  “Childhood  Spinal Tuberculosis ” in  “Inflamatory Disorders of Spine” 

From Natal University Press South Africa
Dr S Rajasekaran
16 Prediction of The Angle Of Gibbus Deformity In Tuberculosis Of The Spine.

J Bone and Joint Surg  69A,503-508,1987
Dr S Rajasekaran and  Prof. T.K. Shanmugasundaram
17 The Progression Of Kyphosis In Tuberculosis Of The Spine Treated By Anterior Arthordesis.

J Bone and Joint Surg. 71A,1314-1323,Oct 1989
Dr S Rajasekaran and Dr S Soundrapandian

18 Eighteen Level Analysis Of Rotational Changes Following Harriluque Instrumentation in Idiopathic Scoliosis.

J Bone and Joint Surg .66A,104-109,1994
Dr S Rajasekaran, Dr Dorgan J, and Dr Dangerfield P H

19

Tuberculous Lesions Of The Lumbosacral Region - A 15 Years Follow Up Of Patients Treated By Ambulant Chemotherapy

ISSLS,  Singapore, Abstracts 1997
Dr S Rajasekaran


Other International Abstracts
20 Childhood spinal tuberculosis as a clinical model of Euler’s theory of ‘Buckling Collapse’ of a structural column

Abstract book of  Spine week Porto Portugal
Dr S Rajasekaran  Dr J Dheendhayalan , Dr S Reddy , Dr I Ramakanth Rao, Dr J Naresh Babu , Dr Ajoy Prasad Shetty

21 A study of diffusion in human lumbar discs: A serial MRI study documenting the influence of the endplate on diffusion in normal and degenerate discs

Abstract book of  Spine week Porto Portugal
Dr S Rajasekaran,  Dr J Naresh Babu , Dr R Arun , Dr BRW Armstrong, Dr Ajoy Prasad Shetty , Dr KS Murugan

22 Resection and reconstruction of primary vertebral tumors of cervical spine
Abstract book of  Spine week Porto Portugal

Dr S Rajasekaran , Dr Ajoy Prasad Shetty , Dr I Ramakanth Rao, Dr J Naresh Babu, Dr Thomas Kishen , Dr. Yogesh K Pithwa .

23 Pre-emptive analgesia for post-operative pain relief in lumbosacral spine surgeries. A randomized controlled trial

Abstract book of  Spine week Porto Portugal
Dr S Rajasekaran, Dr J Naresh Babu , Dr C Sekar , Dr S Reddy, Dr Ajoy Prasad Shetty,  Dr. Yogesh K Pithwa

24 Clinical outcome does not match radiological fusion in bone-only anterior cervical fusion following discectomy

Abstract book of  Spine week Porto Portugal
Dr S Rajasekaran, Dr R Arun , Dr J Naresh Babu , Dr Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Dr I Ramakanth Rao I, Dr Thomas Kishen

25 Endplate damage in lumbar discs can be identified in-vivo  by post-contrast MRI studies

Abstract book of  Spine week Porto Portugal
Dr S Rajasekaran,  Dr J Naresh Babu , Dr R Arun , Dr BRW Armstrong  Dr Ajoy Prasad Shetty., Dr KS Murugan
26 Single stage correction of post-tubercular kyphosis by posterior column shortening

Abstract book of Spine week Porto Portugal
Dr S Rajasekaran S., Dr Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Dr Yogesh K Pithwa, Dr J Naresh Babu , Dr Thomas Kishen., Dr I Ramakanth Rao
27 “Biomechanical Analysis Of Buckling Collapse In Childhood Tuberculosis Spinal Tuberculosis”

ISSLS Abstracts, Cleveland USA, 2002
Dr S Rajasekaran

28 The Effect Of Instrumentation On The Cobb Angle, Perdriolle Rotation and The Rib Hump In Idiopathic Scoliosis

Clinical Anatomy  4: 73-77 1991
Dr S Rajasekaran,  Dr Dorgan J, PH Dangerfield and Dr Taylor J
29 Multiple Spinal Level Measurement Of Body Surface Deformity in Scoliosis In Surface Topography And Spinal Deformity

Stuttgart New York 1992
Dr S Rajasekaran, Dr Dangerfield PH, Dr Dorgan J, Dr Gustav Fischer

30 The Effect Of Body Position On The Three Dimensional Surface Deformity of Scioliosis. 

J Bone and Joint Surg.307,74-B:Supp III;1992
Dr Dangerfield PH, Dr Dorgan J and Dr S Rajasekaran

31 The Problem Of Deformity In Spinal Tuberculosis

ISSLS ,Marseilles France, Abstracts 1993
Dr S Rajasekaran

32 Tuberculous Lesions Of The Lumbosacral Region - A 15 Years Follow Up Of Patients Treated By Ambulant Chemotherapy

ISSLS,  Singapore, Abstracts 1997
Dr S Rajasekaran


Publications - National


33

Cervical Laminectomy – revisited – its role in myelopathy secondary to multilevel spondylosis and ossified posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) Journal of Tamilnadu Orthopaedic Association, Volume 32, 2006

                       
Dr Vidyadhara S, Dr Ajoy P Shetty, Dr S Rajasekaran, Prof M.B. Pranesh
34

Randomised clinical study to compare the accuracy of navigated and non-navigated
thoracic pedicle screws in deformity correction surgeries                    

Dr Vidyadhara S, Dr Ramesh Perumal, Dr Ajoy P.Shetty, Dr SRajasekaran

35

Translaminar facetal screw (Magerl’s) fixation

Neurology India, Dec 2005
Dr S Rajasekaran, Dr J Naresh Babu

                       
36

Posterior pedicular Instrumentation In Tuberculosis.

Journal of Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association Vol:29-2003 Page 65-68.
Dr.Yogesh K. Pithwa, Dr.S.Rajasekaran, Dr. Ajoy Prasad Shetty

37

A Study of Diffusion Pattern in Human Lumbar Inter Vertebral Discs.
An MRI Evaluation in Normal Volunteers and Low Backache Patients.

Orthopaedic Association Vol:29-2003 Page 75-79.
Dr.R.Arun, Dr.S.Rajasekaran, Dr. K.S.Murugan. Journal of Tamil Nadu

38

Surgical Treatment of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

SPINE Continuing Orthopaedic Education-2003 Page 95-102.
Dr.S.Rajasekaran

39

Kyphus Behavior in TB of the Spine

SPINE Continuing Orthopaedic Education-2003 Page 141-148.
Dr.S.Rajasekaran

40

“Prediction Of Gibbus Angle”  in Current Concepts In
Bone And Joint Tuberculosis

International Bone and Joint Club, Madras, India 1985
Edited by T.K. Shanmugasundaram , Documentation Centre

41

Thesis On ‘A  Longitudinal Study On The Progress Of Deformity
In  Children With Spinal Tuberculosis'  

Submitted to the Tamilnadu Dr.MGR Medical University in October, 2000.
42

“Spondylolysis And Spondylolisthesis ”
Instructional Courses lectures, Association of Spine Surgeons of India
   
 Edited by Prof.H.K.T. Raza, September 2001

43

“Cervical Myelopthy ”

XX Continuing Orthopaedic Education Course at Goa, September, 2002
Dr S Rajasekaran

44

“Tumours Of The Spine In Geriatric Population”
 
XX Continuing Orthopaedic Education Course at Goa, September, 2002 
Dr S Rajasekaran

45

“Invited Article Childhood Spinal Tuberculosis”

North East Orthoscan Volume 3,No.1,January  2004.
Dr S Rajasekaran