Full Description
An expert reference on the management of adult spinal deformities
In this fourth volume of the AOSpine Masters Series experts from around the world share their strategies for managing the most common adult spinal deformities. This book gives clinicians the guidance they need to make the right treatment decisions and provide the best care for their patients. Chapter topics include osteotomies for rigid spinal deformities, postoperative coronal decompensation in adult deformity, and biomechanics and material science for deformity correction.
Key Features:
The issues of patient selection, outcomes, and complications along with all the essential preoperative and intraoperative factors are discussed in detail in every chapter
Editors are internationally recognized authorities on the management of adult spinal deformities
Each chapter includes expert tips and pearls
The AOSpine Masters Series, a co-publication of Thieme and AOSpine, a Clinical Division of the AO Foundation, addresses current clinical issues whereby international masters of spine share their expertise and recommendations on a particular topic. The goal of the series is to contribute to an evolving, dynamic model of an evidence-based medicine approach to spine care.
All spine surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, and neurosurgeons, along with residents and fellows in these areas, will find this book to be an excellent reference that they will consult often.
Contents
1 Preoperative Evaluation and Optimization for Surgery
2 Decision Making in Adult Deformity Surgery: Decompression Versus Short or Long Fusion
3 The Use of Osteotomies for Rigid Spinal Deformities
4 Indications and Techniques for Sacral-Pelvic Fixation in Adult Spinal Deformity
5 Instrumentation Strategies in Osteoporotic Spine: How to Prevent Failure?
6 The Incidence and Management of Acute Neurologic Complications Following Complex Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery
7 Postoperative Coronal Decompensation in Adult Deformity
8 Measuring Outcome and Value in Adult Deformity Surgery
9 Junctional Issues Following Adult Deformity Surgery
10 Biomechanics and Material Science for Deformity Correction
11 Pseudarthrosis and Infection
