Research & Publications

Erick R. Kazarian, MD is a clinical assistant professor, department of orthopedic surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an active member of the Endoscopic Spine Surgery Program at NYU Langone Health. His academic work focuses on endoscopic spine surgery, and in particular the unilateral biportal endoscopic (UBE) technique, for which he authored a peer-reviewed technical primer for surgeons.

Selected peer-reviewed publications

• Primer on Unilateral Biportal Endoscopic Spine Surgery: Technical Overview for Beginners

  The Spine Journal · 2025 · Lead author

• Contemporary Practice Patterns in the Treatment of Cervical Stenosis and Central Cord Syndrome: A Survey of the Cervical Spine Research Society

  Clinical Spine Surgery · 2025

• Paraspinal Sarcopenia Is Associated with Worse Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Laminoplasty for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy

  Spine · 2023

• Is Severe Neck Pain a Contraindication to Performing Laminoplasty in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy?

  Clinical Spine Surgery · 2023

• Incidental Durotomy Is Associated With Increased Risk of Delirium in Patients Aged 65 and Older

  Spine · 2020 · Lead author

• Prior Manipulation Under Anesthesia Is a Predictor of Contralateral Manipulation in Staged Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty

  The Journal of Arthroplasty · 2020

• Antegrade Versus Retrograde Technique for Fixation of Scaphoid Waist Fractures: A Comparison of Screw Placement

  Journal of Wrist Surgery · 2020

• Natural Language Processing for Automated Detection of Incidental Durotomy

  The Spine Journal · 2019

• Early Post-operative Opioid Consumption: A Comparison Between Medial Unicompartmental, Patellofemoral, and Total Knee Arthroplasty

  The Knee · 2019

• The Impact of Vancomycin and Cefazolin as Standard Pre-operative Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Surgical Site Infections Following Instrumented Spinal Fusion

  Spine · 2018

• The C-Reactive Protein May Not Detect Infections Caused by Less-Virulent Organisms

  The Journal of Arthroplasty · 2016

• Core Concepts: Orthopedic Intern Curriculum Boot Camp

  Orthopedics · 2016

• Impact of Body Mass Index on Cerebellar Tonsil Position in Healthy Subjects and Patients with Chiari Malformation

  Journal of Neurosurgery · 2015

• Streptomyces Bacteremia: Case Report and Review of the Literature

  Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice · 2014 · Lead author

Indexed on PubMed.

Research interests

• •Unilateral biportal endoscopic (UBE/BESS) surgical technique and adoption
• •Minimally invasive and endoscopic approaches to lumbar decompression and fusion
• •Motion-preserving cervical spine surgery
• •Perioperative outcomes and complication reduction in spine surgery

Invited lectures

• “Adoption and Learning Curve with Biportal Endoscopic Spine Surgery”

  American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) · 2024

• “Contemporary Practice Patterns in the Treatment of Cervical Stenosis and Central Cord Syndrome: A Survey of the Cervical Spine Research Society”

  Cervical Spine Research Society · 2022

Book chapters

• Component and Cement Removal

  The Hip: Preservation, Replacement, and Revision (Data Trace Publishing) · 2015

• Infection Prophylaxis in TKA

  Basic Knee Arthroplasty (Springer Publishing) · 2019