Dr. Walter Randall Sassard, MD

PAPERS PRESENTED: Sassard WR: The painful shoulder. Presented at Texas Gulf Coast Chapter of National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses, Houston Chapter, Houston, Texas, October 5, 1987. Sassard, WR: Internal fixation of the lumbar spine with pedicle screws. Presented at National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses Workshop, Houston, Texas, October 19, 1990. Sassard WR: Surgical applications of pedicle screw spine instrumentation for fusions. Presented at VSP & ISOLA In-service for St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital Orthopaedic Nursing Staff, Houston, Texas, February 15, 1992. Kaestner GR, Sassard WR, Brodsky AE, Watters WC III, Khalil MA: Four-year experience with pedicle screw fixation in lumbar spine fusion. Presented at Texas Orthopaedic Association, San Antonio, Texas, May 15, 1992. Sassard WR: Circumferential lumbar fusion. Presented at Orthopaedic Grand Rounds, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, May 29, 1992. Brodsky AE, Khalil MA, Sassard WR, Newman BP: Comparison of …posterior vs. anterior repair for symptomatic pseudarthrosis of anterior interbody fusions of the cervical spine. Presented at 7th Annual North American Spine Society, Boston, Massachusetts, July 10, 1992. Sassard WR: Surgical treatment of disorders of the cervical spine. Presented at concurrent nursing program of 29th Annual St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital Orthopaedic Symposium, Houston, Texas, April 22, 1992. Sassard WR, Kaestner GR, Khalil MA, Gray, Jr. PM: Circumferential lumbar fusion through a posterior approach. Presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Southern Orthopaedic Association, Vienna, Austria, August 12, 1993. Sassard WR, Kaestner GR, Khalil MA, Gray, Jr. PM: Circumferential lumbar fusion through a posterior approach. Presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Western Orthopaedic Association, Long Beach, California, August 15, 1994. Watters WC, Sassard WR, Siff SJ: The cell-saver in complex lumbar spine surgery: a cost-benefit outcomes study. Presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 66th Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, February 4, 1999.