Dear Colleagues,

We sincerely wish the happy and healthy new year to all my colleagues and their families. We are happy to accomplish the first issue of 2019.

There are 14 clinical research articles in this issue. First article is very important, in that article, measurement of spinopelvic parameters of the Turkish young population has been reported. In the second article, results of surgical treatment of the idiopathic scoliosis has been presented. Third article is retrospective study about the managing blood loss in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery. Next two articles are about the management of anesthesiology in surgery of adolescent and adult scoliosis. In the sixth article, the effect of postural kinesiotaping in the treatment of thoracic kyphosis has been researched. Seventh article is about the result of the trans-sacral epiduroscopic laser decompression for lumbar disc herniation. Eighth article is results of transforaminal epidural steroid injection in the single level lumbar disc heniation. In the ninth article, the results of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion as revision surgery for patients previously treated by discectomy or instrumentation of the lumbar spine has been presented. Tenth article is also about lumbar interbody fusion, especially assestment of complications. Eleventh and 12th articles are about the vertebroplasty. Thirteenth article is epidemiologic study about the syringomyelia. The last article is a retrospective study on autologous cervical interbody fat graft application for anterior cervical discectomies. In this issue, there is also a review article about the adult scoliosis.

We believe that all those studies will quietly interest the readers.

Unfortunately, in this issue, there is no section of the “Frontiers of the Spinal Surgery” but we will continue this section in the next issue.

We wish healthy, successful and peaceful new year to Turkish Spinal Surgery family and we present our deepest respects.

Prof. Dr. İ. Teoman BENLİ
JTSS Editor