Full Description
This concise textbook covers the full spectrum of spine surgery-related topics in a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow, readily accessible format. Addressing trauma, deformity, degeneration, oncology and infections, both in pediatric and adult patients, it provides a broad overview of this complex surgical discipline.
Subdivided into four parts, each chapter exhaustively addresses a clinical problem, ranging from signs and symptoms, physical examination through differential diagnoses and classification to treatment options, possible complications and follow-ups. In appendix the reader will find relevant classifications, indexes, questionnaires and quality of life assessments. Didactical videos complement the book illustrating essential basic spine surgery techniques in the daily practice.
Written by an international panel of experts this practical and handy guide is an invaluable tool for trainees of both orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery,spine fellows, and junior spine surgeons.
Contents
Part-1 Pediatric Spine Trauma.- 1. Pediatric cervical injuries.- 2. Thoracolumbar Spine Injuries in Children.- 3 Atlanto-axial (C1-C2) subluxation and dislocation.- 4 Spinal Cord Injury without Radiographic Abnormality.- Part-2 Adult Spine Trauma.- 5 Upper cervical injuries.- 6 Sub-axial cervical spine injurie.- 7 Thoracolumbar injuries.- 9 Spinal cord injury and related conditions.- 10 Osteoporotic fractures.- Part-3 Pediatric Spine Pathology.- 11 Back pain in children.- 12 Congenital scoliosis.- 13 Early onset idiopathic scoliosis.- 14 Syndromic scoliosis.- 15 Early onset neuromuscular scoliosis.- 16 Idiopathic scoliosis: gebe.- 17 Progression risk of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis during puberty and natural history.- 18 Conservative Treatment for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.- 19 Determination of the fusion levels in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.- 20 Late onset neuromuscular scoliosis.- 21 Postural kyphosis.- 22 Scheuermann Disease.- 23 Cervical Kyphosis in Neurofibromatosis type I.- 24 Congenital kyphosis.- 25 Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis.- 26 Disc Bulging and Herniation in Children and Adolescents.- 27 Schmorl's nodes.- 28 Congenital Torticollis (torticollis not related to trauma).- 29 Klippel Feil Syndrome.- 30 Chiari malformation.- 31 Spinal dysraphism.- 32 Sacralization of the 5th Lumbar Vertebra.- 33 Osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma.- 34 Osteochondroma.- 35 Eosinophilic Granuloma (Vertebra Plana).- 36 Medulloblastoma and other seeding tumors.- 37 Spinal astrocytoma.- 38 Osteosarcoma.- 39 Ewing sarcoma.- 40 Discitis in Pediatric spine.- Part-4 Adult Spine Pathology.- 41 Back pain and its generators.- 42 Cervical degenerative disc disease (including cervical disc herniation).- 43 Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM).- 44 Thoracic disc herniation.- 45 Lumbar degenerative disc disease (including lumbar disc herniation).- 46 Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.- 47 Degenerative instability.- 48 Neglected idiopathic scoliosis.- 49 De Novo deformity.- 50 Sagittal plane malalignment.- 51 Post-traumatic Kyhphosis.- 52 Post-infectious deformity.- 53 Paget's disease.- 54 Ankylosing disorders of the spine: AS and DISH.- 55 Vertebral Hemangioma.- 56 Aneurismal bone cyst.- 57 Giant cell tumor.- 58 Spinal Meningioma.- 59 Spinal Nerve Sheath Tumor.- 60 Spinal Ependymoma.- 61 Plasmacytoma.- 62 Chordoma.- 63 Metastatic lesions of spine.- 64 Tuberculosis of spine.- 65 Pyogenic spondylodiscitis.- 66 Post-surgical spinal infection.
