Full Description
The second edition of The Growing Spine has been extensively revised to cover recent advances in knowledge and management. The book is intended as a comprehensive, one-stop reference for specialists and health professionals who care for young children with spinal deformities. In addition, it will effectively help to standardize the care of these patients. Depending on the etiology, children with spinal deformities are often cared for by multiple specialists, including pediatricians, pediatric orthopaedists or orthopaedic spine surgeons, neurologists, pediatric surgeons, pediatric neurosurgeons, oncologists, and pulmonologists. The multidisciplinary nature of care is reflected in The Growing Spine, which will be of value for all involved practitioners rather than just orthopaedic specialists. It will also be an ideal reference for nurses, physical therapists, and healthcare professionals in training, who are usually unfamiliar with spinal deformities in children.
Contents
Embryology and Anatomy.- Normal Growth of the Spine and Thorax.- Biomechanics in the Growing Spine.- Genetics.- New Classification System.- Clinical Evaluation.- Normal Lung growth and Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome.- Imaging of The Growing Spine.- Back Pain in Children.- Pediatric Spinal Infections.- PostOp Infections.- Management of Spine Tumors in Young Children.- Intraspinal Pathology.- Pediatric Spine Trauma.- Sports and Sports Related Injuries .- Spinal Deformity in Metabolic Disorders.- Spinal Manifestations of the Skeletal Dysplasias.- Syndromic Spinal Deformities in the Growing Child.- Idiopathic Scoliosis: Infantile and Juvenile .- Congenital Scoliosis.- Treatment of Spinal Deformity in Cerebral Palsy.- Myelodsplasia.- Spinal Dysraphism.- Other Neuromuscular Diseases.- Neurofibromatosis.- Sagittal Plane Alignment and Deformities.- Spondylolisthesis.- Casting for Early Onset Scoliosis.- Orthotic Management for (I-EOS) Infantile and Juvenile Scoliosis.- Halo-Gravity Traction.- Crankshaft Phenomena Following Spinal Fusion in the Growing Child.- Convex Growth Arrest for Congenital Scoliosis.- Surgical management of Kyphosis in Myelomeningocele.- Hemivertebrectomy.- Vertebral Osteotomy.- Vertebral Resection.- Growing Rods.- VEPTR Expansion Thoracoplasty.- Revision Spine Surgery in the Growing Child.- Anesthetic Considerations In the growing children and repetitive anesthesia.- Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring During Corrective Spine Surgery in the Growing Child.- Nursing Care .- Long- Term Effects of Instrumented Fusion in Growing Children .- Outcomes in Children with Early Onset Scoliosis.- Current Basic Science Research in Growth Modulation and Future Outlook.- Spinal External Fixation .- Growth Guided Instrumentation.- Hybrid Distraction-Based Growing Rods.
