Full Description
This practical, user-friendly guide is designed for neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons with an interest in pediatric spinal deformity. While multiple definitive, high-density textbooks exist in this field, this book is formatted as a concise, tactical resource.
Chapters emphasize tangible clinical take-home points, with deeper references provided for further exploration. The text assumes a working knowledge of spine surgery fundamentals and serves as a practical guide to treating children with spinal pathologies. It highlights unique considerations in pediatric spine surgery, technical nuances, pathology, technology and systems-based care. Chapters are primarily bulleted to deliver quick, high-yield information on preoperative, operative and postoperative considerations, as well as potential complications—supported by ample radiography and intraoperative photographs.
The book concludes with a Masters' Series, in which leading experts provide step-by-step explanations of their approaches to both typical and complex cases.
Contents
Part I. Unique Considerations in the Evaluation and Treatment of Growing Children with Spine Disorders.- Organizing Your Thoughts on Pediatric Spinal Deformity.- Measuring the Films: An Overview.- Mehta Casting in Infantile Scoliosis.- How and When to Use Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods.- How and When to Use Traditional Growing Rods.- Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib (VEPTR).- How and When to Use a Growth Guidance Surgery (Shilla).- How and When to Treat Congenital Scoliosis.- Nuances of Syndromic Scoliosis: Neurofibromatosis Type 1.- Nuances of Syndromic Scoliosis: Connective Tissue Marfan's, Ehlers-Danlos, and Loeys-Dietz.- Nuances of Neuromuscular Scoliosis.- Special Considerations in SMA Patients.- Neuromuscular Scoliosis: Myelomeningocele Associated Spine Deformity.- Part II. Technical Nuances: How to Treat Pediatric Patients and How to Perform Pediatric Spine Surgery.- Nuances of Conservative Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS): Bracing and Physical Therapy.- Operative Indications and Level Selection in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.- How and When to Perform a Selective Thoracic Fusion for AIS.- How and When to Perform Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering in AIS.- Halo Gravity Traction.- How and When to Place Freehand Pedicle Screws in Pediatric Spinal Deformity.- How and When to Use Hooks, Sublaminar Wires and Other Instrumentation.- How and When to Place Cervical Instrumentation.- How and When to Perform a Posterior Column Osteotomy in a Child.- How and When to Perform a Three-Column Osteotomy in a Child.- Pelvic Instrumentation in the Young/Growing Spine.- Scheuermann's Kyphosis.- High Grade Spondylolisthesis.- Postlaminectomy Kyphosis.- Cervical and Craniocervical Spine Deformity in Children.- Chiari Type-1 Malformation, Syringomyelia, and Scoliosis.- Types of Braces and Bracing Techniques for Pediatric Scoliosis.- Spinal Column Shortening for Tethered Spinal Cord.- Part III. Technology and Systems-Based Care for Children.- Pre-Operative Medical Optimization In Pediatric Spinal Deformity Patients.- Anesthetic Considerations in Pediatric Spinal Deformity Surgery.- Enabling Technologies in Pediatric Spine Surgery.- Building a High-Performance Team for Complex Pediatric Spine Surgery: A Comprehensive Approach.- Postoperative Care on the ICU and Floor for Pediatric Spine Patients.- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) for Pediatric Spinal Deformity.- Considerations for Pediatric Patients after Spinal Deformity Surgery.- When Kids Grow Up: Adult Idiopathic Scoliosis.- Long-term Sagittal Alignment in Children and Young Adults.- The Economics of Pediatric Spinal Deformity.- Modalities of Neuromonitoring in Pediatric Spinal Deformity Surgery.- Managing Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Changes in the Stable Spine.- Intraoperative Neuromonitoring changes in High-Risk Spine Surgery.- Cases with Unreliable Neuromonitoring Data.- Part IV. How the Masters Do It.- How Do the Masters Do it? A Step-By-Step Guide for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Lenke 1A.- How Do the Masters Do it? A Step-By-Step Guide for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Lenke 5C.- How Do the Masters Do it? A Step-By-Step Guide for Vertebral Column Resection.- How Do the Masters Do it? A Step-By-Step Guide for Early Onset Scoliosis.- How Do the Masters Do it? A Step-By-Step Guide for High Grade Spondylolisthesis.
