Lionel Metz, MD
Associate Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery
School of Medicine
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
- Spine Surgery Fellowship Orthopaedic Spine Washington University School of Medicine 2015
- Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Orthopaedic Residency University of California, San Francisco 2014
- MD Doctor of Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2008
- BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of California, Davis 2002
Interests
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- Surgical outcomes
- Lumbar Spine
- Medical Education
- complications of surgery
- Cervical Spine
- Kyphosis
- Surgical Risk Stratification
- Spondylolysis
- spondylolisthesis
- Spine Research
- Spine deformity
- disc degeneration and repair
- Spine surgery
- Spine Biomechanics
- Scoliosis
Websites
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- UCSF Pediatric and Adult Spine Course (spinehawaii.ucsf.edu)
- UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (orthosurgery.ucsf.edu)
- Clinical Profile at UCSF Medical Center (ucsfhealth.org)
Publications (41)
Top publication keywords:
Orthopedic ProceduresSports MedicineOsteoporosisSpinal CurvaturesScoliosisSpineLordosisHypoalbuminemiaThoracic VertebraeSpinal FusionKyphosisPostoperative ComplicationsBack PainReoperationPseudarthrosis
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Surgical Correction of Neuromuscular Scoliosis Secondary to Congenital Zika Syndrome: A Case Report.
JBJS case connector 2022 O'Donnell JM, Metz L, Swarup I -
Comparison of 90-day complications and two-year reoperation rates between anterior and posterior interbody fusion for single-level degenerative spondylolisthesis.
North American Spine Society journal 2022 Georgiou S, Saggi S, Wu HH, Metz L -
Pseudoarthrosis after long adult deformity reconstruction.
Seminars in Spine Surgery 2021 Hao-Hua Wu, Steven Wright, Lionel Metz -
The Reliability of a Grading System for Digital Subtraction Imaging Quality During Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection.
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2020 Binler D, House LM, Mattie R, Saltychev M, Nagao M, Pekmeczi M, Metz L, O'Neil C, Shah V, McCormick ZL -
55. Ending opioid addiction following spine surgery.
The Spine Journal 2019 Sina Pourtaheri, Lionel N. Metz, Emmanuel N. Menga
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Cervical Laminoplasty.
Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and Radiculopathy 2019 Lionel N. Metz, Grigoriy Arutyunyan, Deeptee Jain, Lee A. Tan, K. Daniel Riew -
Current Concepts in Orthopaedic Care Disparities.
The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2018 Pandya NK, Wustrack R, Metz L, Ward D -
Topical tranexamic acid in spinal surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2018 Yerneni K, Burke JF, Tuchman A, Li XJ, Metz LN, Lehman RA, Lenke LG, Tan LA -
Preventing Pseudoarthrosis and Proximal Junctional Kyphosis: How to Deal with the Osteoporotic Spine.
Neurosurgery clinics of North America 2018 Karikari IO, Metz LN -
Hypoalbuminemia Is Associated With Septic Revisions After Primary Surgery and Postoperative Infection After Revision Surgery.
Spine 2018 Khanna K, Yi PH, Sing DC, Geiger E, Metz LN -
Contributions of Material Properties and Structure to Increased Bone Fragility for a Given Bone Mass in the UCD-T2DM Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2018 Acevedo C, Sylvia M, Schaible E, Graham JL, Stanhope KL, Metz LN, Gludovatz B, Schwartz AV, Ritchie RO, Alliston TN, Havel PJ, Fields AJ -
Spine deformity surgery in the elderly: risk factors and 30-day outcomes are comparable in posterior versus combined approaches.
Neurological research 2017 Yue JK, Sing DC, Sharma S, Upadhyayula PS, Winkler EA, Shaw JD, Metz LN -
Machine Learning-Based Classification of 38 Years of Spine-Related Literature Into 100 Research Topics.
Spine 2017 Sing DC, Metz LN, Dudli S -
Variations in Occipitocervical and Cervicothoracic Alignment Parameters Based on Age: A Prospective Study of Asymptomatic Volunteers Using Full-Body Radiographs.
Spine 2016 Iyer S, Lenke LG, Nemani VM, Fu M, Shifflett GD, Albert TJ, Sides BA, Metz LN, Cunningham ME, Kim HJ -
Variations in Sagittal Alignment Parameters Based on Age: A Prospective Study of Asymptomatic Volunteers Using Full-Body Radiographs.
Spine 2016 Iyer S, Lenke LG, Nemani VM, Albert TJ, Sides BA, Metz LN, Cunningham ME, Kim HJ -
Increase in spinal deformity surgery in patients age 60 and older is not associated with increased complications.
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society 2016 Sing DC, Berven SH, Burch S, Metz LN -
Baseline Patient-Reported Outcomes Correlate Weakly With Radiographic Parameters: A Multicenter, Prospective NIH Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis Study of 286 Patients.
Spine 2016 Chapman TM, Baldus CR, Lurie JD, Glassman SD, Schwab FJ, Shaffrey CI, Lafage V, Boachie-Adjei O, Kim HJ, Smith JS, Crawford CH, Lenke LG, Buchowski JM, Edwards C, Koski T, Parent S, Lewis S, Kang DG, … -
227 Validation of the Orthopedic Perioperative Effective Risk Assessment Score in Posterolateral Spinal Fusion.
The Spine Journal 2016 David Sing, Lionel N. Metz -
P126 Increase in Spinal Deformity Patients in Patients Age 60 and Over is Not Associated with Increased Complications.
The Spine Journal 2016 David Sing, Sigurd H. Berven, Shane Burch, Lionel N. Metz -
P41 Does Malnutrition Predict Infection after Revision Spine Surgery?.
The Spine Journal 2016 Paul Yi, David Sing, Lionel N. Metz -
Increasing Rates of Surgical Management of Multilevel Spinal Curvature in Elderly Patients.
Spine deformity 2016 Sing DC, Khanna R, Shaw JD, Metz LN, Burch S, Berven SH -
Obesity Is an Independent Risk Factor of Early Complications After Revision Spine Surgery.
Spine 2016 Sing DC, Yue JK, Metz LN, Winkler EA, Zhang WR, Burch S, Berven SH -
Alterations in Intervertebral Disc Composition, Matrix Homeostasis and Biomechanical Behavior in the UCD-T2DM Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes.
The Spine Journal 2015 Aaron J. Fields, Britta Berg-Johansen, Lionel N. Metz, Stephanie Miller, Brandan La, Ellen C. Liebenberg, Dezba G. Coughlin, James L. Graham, Kimber L. Stanhope, Peter J. Havel, Jeffrey C. Lotz -
Can S2-Alar-Iliac (S2AI) Screws Be Placed Accurately without Fluoroscopy?.
The Spine Journal 2015 Daniel G. Kang, Jacob M. Buchowski, Lawrence G. Lenke, Ronald A. Lehman, Todd M. Chapman, Panya Luksanapruksa, Jamal McClendon, Lionel N. Metz -
Complications of Morbid Obesity in Total Joint Arthroplasty: Risk Stratification Based on BMI.
The Journal of arthroplasty 2015 Ward DT, Metz LN, Horst PK, Kim HT, Kuo AC -
Alterations in intervertebral disc composition, matrix homeostasis and biomechanical behavior in the UCD-T2DM rat model of type 2 diabetes.
Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society 2015 Fields AJ, Berg-Johansen B, Metz LN, Miller S, La B, Liebenberg EC, Coughlin DG, Graham JL, Stanhope KL, Havel PJ, Lotz JC -
Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases Affecting the Young Athlete’s Spine.
Spinal Injuries and Conditions in Young Athletes 2014 Lionel N. Metz, Derek Thomas Ward, Aenor J. Sawyer -
Effects of Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus on Intervertebral Disc Health in Rats.
The Spine Journal 2013 Lionel N. Metz, Aaron J. Fields, Alberto F. Lovell, Britta Berg-Johansen, Morsi Khashan, James Graham, Peter Havel, Jeffrey C. Lotz -
Does Diabetes Cause the Intervertebral Disc to Degenerate?.
The Spine Journal 2012 Lionel N. Metz, Alberto F. Lovell, James Graham, Ellen Liebenberg, Peter Havel, Jeffrey C. Lotz -
Infectious, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases affecting the athlete's spine.
Clinics in sports medicine 2012 Metz LN, Wustrack R, Lovell AF, Sawyer AJ -
Porcine intervertebral disc repair using allogeneic juvenile articular chondrocytes or mesenchymal stem cells.
Tissue engineering. Part A 2011 Acosta FL, Metz L, Adkisson HD, Liu J, Carruthers-Liebenberg E, Milliman C, Maloney M, Lotz JC -
Autoren.
Bewegungserhaltende Wirbelsäulenchirurgie 2011 Todd F. Alamin, Marco Bérard, Rudolf Bertagnoli, Jason D. Blain, Scott L. Blumenthal, Nicholas R. Boeree, David S. Bradford, Jacob M. Buchowski, Allen Carl, Boyle C. Cheng, Robert J. Chomiak, … -
Kapitel 1 Einführung in die bewegungserhaltende Chirurgie der Wirbelsäule.
Bewegungserhaltende Wirbelsäulenchirurgie 2011 Alvin H. McKenzie, Rajiv K. Sethi, Lionel N. Metz, David S. Bradford, Daniel R. Fassett, Shiveindra B. Jeyamohan, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Peter G. Whang, Boyle C. Cheng, William C. Welch, Nadim James … -
98. Juvenile Chondrocytes are Superior to Undifferentiated Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Porcine Intervertebral Disc Repair.
The Spine Journal 2008 Frank Acosta, Lionel Metz, Jane Liu, Ellen Carruthers-Liebenberg, H.D. Adkisson, Michael Maloney, Jeffrey Lotz -
Anterior arthrodesis with instrumentation for thoracolumbar scoliosis: comparison of efficacy in adults and adolescents.
Spine 2008 Deviren V, Patel VV, Metz LN, Berven SH, Hu SH, Bradford DS -
Computer-assisted surgical planning and image-guided surgical navigation in refractory adult scoliosis surgery: case report and review of the literature.
Spine 2008 Metz LN, Burch S -
Chapter 2 History and Evolution of Motion Preservation.
Motion Preservation Surgery of the Spine 2008 Rajiv K. Sethi, Lionel N. Metz, David S. Bradford -
123. Contextual and Methodological Challenges in Determining the Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID).
The Spine Journal 2007 Vedat Deviren, Danielle Geula, Sibel Demir-Deviren, Sigurd Berven, Lionel Metz, Serena Hu -
Anterior instrumented arthrodesis for adult idiopathic scoliosis.
Neurosurgery clinics of North America 2007 Deviren V, Metz LN -
Low-grade spondylolisthesis.
Neurosurgery clinics of North America 2007 Metz LN, Deviren V -
Histomorphometric analysis of the effects of osteocyte density on osteonal morphology and remodeling.
Bone 2003 Metz LN, Martin RB, Turner AS