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Texas Center for Athletes
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Dr Thongtrangan's Publications

Journals

Thongtrangan I., Ohnmeiss D., Blumenthal S., Hume S., Guyer R., & Zigler J.: Intra-operative Primary Conversion of Attempted Lumbar Total Disc Replacement to Fusion: Incidence and Causes. (Submitted)

Thongtrangan I., Ohnmeiss D., & Guyer R.: Outcomes of CHARITE lumbar artificial disc VS fusion:5-yr data. (Submitted)

Thongtrangan I., Ohnmeiss D., Atanasov A., &bGuyer R.: Health-Related Quality of Life: How Does Symptomatic Disc Degeneration and Its Treatment with Total Disc Replacement Compare to Other Medical Conditions? (Submitted)

Sambandam, S., Gul, A., Thongtrangan, I., & Mounasamy, V. (2008). Revision knee arthroplasty with retention of well-fixed components. European Journal of Orthopedic and Trauma, November 2008.

Ulrich, S.D., Seyler, T.M., Bennett, D., Delanois, R.E., Saleh, K.J., Thongtrangan, I., et al (2007). Total Hip Arthroplasties: What are the Reasons for Revision? International Orthopaedics, April 2007.

Zhang, H.Y., Thongtrangan, I., Le, H., Park, J., & Kim, D.H. (2005). Expandable Cage for Cervical Spine Reconstruction. Journal of Korean Neurosurgical society, 38(6): 435-441.

Thongtrangan, I., Thongtrangan, K., & Kim D.H. (2005). Current techniques in minimally invasive cervical disc surgery. Minerva Orthopaedica e traumatologica, 56(5): 465-481.

Le, H., Thongtrangan, I., & Kim, D.H. (2004). Historical Review of Cervical Arthroplasty. Neurosurg Focus 17(3).

Saleh, K.J., Thongtrangan, I., & Schwarz, E.M. (2004). Osteolysis: medical and surgical approaches. Clin Orthop, 427:138-147.

Cheng, E.Y., Thongtrangan, I., Laorr, A., & Saleh, K.J. (2004). Spontaneous Resolution of Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head. J Bone Joint Surg Am, 86: 2594-2599.

Thongtrangan, I., Le, H., Park, J., & Kim, D.H. (2004). Cauda equina syndrome in patients with low lumbar fractures. Neurosurg Focus, 16: 6: e6.

Thongtrangan, I., Le, H., Park, J., & Kim, D.H. (2004). Minimally invasive spinal surgery: a historical perspective. Neurosurg Focus, 16: 1: E13.

Thongtrangan, I., Balabhadra, R.S., Le, H., Park, J., & Kim, D.H. (2003). Vertebral body replacement with an expandable cage for reconstruction after spinal tumor resection. Neurosurg Focus, 15: 5: E8.

Thongtrangan, I., Balabhadra, R.S., & Kim, D.H. (2003). Management of strut graft failure in anterior cervical spine surgery. Neurosurg Focus, 15: 3: E4. Zhang, H.Y., Thongtrangan, I., Balabhadra, R.S., Murovic, J.A., & Kim, D.H. (2003). Surgical techniques for total sacrectomy and spinopelvic reconstruction. Neurosurg Focus, 15: 2: E5.

Hammerberg,M., Thongtrangan,I., Saleh, K.J. (2003). Periprosthetic fractures complicating total knee arthroplasty. Seminars in Arthroplasty, 14(3): 173-179.

Thongtrangan,I., Yoon,P., Saleh, K.J. (2003). Bony Reconstruction in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty. Seminars in Arthroplasty, 14 (3): 152-158.

Thongtrangan,I., Yoon,P., Saleh, K.J. (2003). Principles in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty. Seminars in Arthroplasty, 14(3): 142-147.

Thongtrangan, I. (2002). Percutaneous Screw fixation for Scaphoid Fracture (snuff box incision). Journal of Asean orthopedics.

Thongtrangan, I. (2002). Mini Mobile “Police” External Fixator for Comminuted Injuries of the Hands. Journal of Asean orthopedics.

Thongtrangan, I. (1996). Pattern of Patellofemoral Joints Subluxation in Varus OA Knees. Journal of Asean orthopedics.

Book Chapters

Thongtrangan, I., Guyer, R. (In Press). Anterior Lumbar Disc Arthroplasty. In J. Eck, A. Vaccaro (Eds), Surgical Atlas of Spinal Operations: JayPee Publishing.

Thongtrangan, I., Lieberman, I. (In Press). Kyphoplasty. In E. Baron, A. Vaccaro (Eds), Operative Techniques in Spine surgery (2nd ed): Saunders.

Thongtrangan, I., Le, H., Park, J., & Kim, D.H. (2008). Neurofibromatosis of the spine. In D.H. Kim, R.R. Betz, S.L. Huhn, & P.O. Newton (Eds.), Surgery in pediatric spine. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers.

Le, H., Thongtrangan, I., Kim, D.H. (2006). Fusion-minimally invasive techniques. In C.W. Slipman, R.Derby, & F.A. Simeone (Eds.), Interventional spine. Saunders.

Le, H., Kim, D.H., Thongtrangan, I., Park, J., & Fessler, R. (2006). Surgical approaches to the cervicothoracic junction. In H.H. Schmidek & D.W. Roberts (Eds.), Schmidek and Sweet’s Operative Neurosurgical Techniques (5th ed.). Philadelphia: Elsevier publishers.

Thongtrangan, I., Le, H., Park, J., Kim, D.H. (2005). Surgical techniques for expandable cage instrumentation. In D.H. Kim, A.R. Vaccaro, & R.G. Fessler (Eds.), Spinal Instrumentation Surgical Techniques. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers.

Thongtrangan, I., Le, H., Park, J., Kim, D.H. (2005). Surgical techniques for anterior Moss-Miami SI dual rod instrumentation. In D.H. Kim, A.R. Vaccaro, & R.G. Fessler (Eds.), Spinal Instrumentation Surgical Techniques. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers.

Thongtrangan, I., Le, H., Park, J., Kim, D.H. (2004). Thoracic and thoracolumbar fractures. In D.H. Kim, A.R. Vaccaro, J. Hayne, & C. Dickman (Eds.), Surgical anatomy and approaches of the spine. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers.

Thongtrangan, I., Le, H., Park, J., Kim, D.H. (2004). Surgical anatomy and approaches to the thoracolumbar junction. In D.H. Kim, A.R. Vaccaro, J. Hayne, & C. Dickman (Eds.), Surgical anatomy and approaches of the spine. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers.

Saleh, K.J., Mulhall, K.J., Thongtrangan, I., & Barrack, R.L. (2006). Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty. In R.Barrack, R.E.Booth, J.H.Lonner, J.C.McCarthy, M.A.Mont, & H.E.Rubash (Eds.), Orthopaedic Knowledge Update: Hip and Knee Reconstruction 3. AAOS publishers.