Evaluation of Decompression and Interlaminar Stabilization Compared with Decompression and Fusion for the Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: 5-year Follow-up of a Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial Michael J. Musacchio MD, Carl Lauryssen MD, Reginald J. Davis MD, Hyun W. Bae MD, John H. Peloza MD, Richard D. Guyer MD, Jack E.
Zigler MD, Donna D. Ohnmeiss DrMed, Scott Leary MD
2013
Decompression and Coflex Interlaminar Stabilization Compared With Decompression and Instrumented Spinal Fusion for Spinal Stenosis and Low-Grade Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
Two-Year Results From the Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter, Food and Drug Administration
Investigational Device Exemption Trial Reginald J. Davis MD , Thomas J. Errico MD, Hyun Bae MD and Joshua D. Auerbach MD
2012
Prospective, randomized, multicenter Level 1 clinical study of decompression + posterior fusion vs. decompression and coflexT on 1-2 levels.
Shows that direct decompression and interlaminar stabilization proved equivalent or superior to laminectomy and posterior spinal fusion at 2 years in the treatment of spinal stenosis with back pain or degenerative spondylolisthesis.
Spinalcolumn Newsletter 13 issue Februari 2012. The study has been presented at NASS 2011, IMAST 2011 and
DWG 2011
2007
Can a modified interspinous spacer prevent instability in axial rotation and lateral bending? A biomechanical in vitro study resulting in a new idea A. Kettler, J. Drumm, F. Heuer, K. Haeussler, C. Mack, L. Claes a, H.-J. Wilke, Institute for Orthopaedic Research and Biomechanics, University of Ulm, Department of Neurosurgery, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany
Coflex® Interspinous Stabilization: Clinical and Radiographic Results from an International Multicenter Retrospective Study Dieter Adelt, MD, Jacques Samani, MD, Woo-Kyung Kim, MD, PhD, Marcus Eif, MD, Gary L. Lowery, MD, PhD and Robert J. Chomiak, MS
2006
One-year Outcome Evaluation after Interspinous Implantation for
Degenerative Spinal Stenosis with Segmental Instability Doo-Sik Kong, Eun-Sang Kim,
Whan Eoh,
Department of Neurosurgery, Samsung Medical
Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine,
Seoul, Korea
A Biomechanical Evaluation of an Interspinous Device
(coflexT Device ) used to Stabilize the Lumbar Spine Kai-Jow Tsai, MD, Hideki Murakami, MD, PhD, Gary L. Lowery, MD, PhD,
William C. Hutton, DSc