Erratum to: Eur Spine J DOI 10.1007/s00586-007-0514-8

Owing to an unfortunate oversight, the authors’ names appeared in the wrong order in the original article.

The author list should read: Shay Shabat, Zeev Arinzon, Yoram Folman, Josef Leitner, Rami David, Evgeny Pevzner, Ishay Shuval, Pekarsky Ilya, Reuven Gepstein