The Adult & Pediatric Spine covers both the adult and the pediatric spine, and provides more complete and detailed information on surgical technques.

Features:

• Chapters thoroughly describe the clinical presentation, diagnosis, prognosis, nonoperative management, and surgical treatment of all diseases and traumatic injuries
• Each chapter includes algorithms and bulleted lists of key points
• Features a comprehensive section on operative techniques
• Contains original drawings that demonstrate the techniques

Contents

General Issues of Spinal Disorders

• Introduction
• Epidemiology and Economic Implications
• Sensitivity, Specificity and Outcomes
• Workers' Compensation and Impairment Ratings

Diagnosis

• History and Physical Exam
• Imaging
• Special Studies
• Electrodiagnostics

General Diseases Affecting the Spine

• Metabolic Bone Disease
• Inflammatory Diseases
• Infectious Disease
• Tumors
• Vascular Abnormalities
• Other Issues Related to Low Back Pain
• Chronic Pain Management for Low Back Pain

Pediatric Spine

• Idiopathic Scoliosis
• Congenital Spine Deformity
• Neuromuscular Deformity
• Kyphosis
• Spondylolesthesis
• Trauma
• Back Pain in Children and Adolescents

Adult Deformity

• Adult Scoliosis
• Kyphosis in the Adult
• Adult Isthmic Spondyloisthesis
• Salvage Surgery
• Osteoporotic Spinal Deformity

Operative Techniques for Pediatrics and Adult Spinal Deformity

• Perioperative Planning and Care
• Posterior Instrumentation
• Anterior Instrumentation
• Salvage Techniques
• Surgery for Isthmic Spondylolisthesis

Cervical Spine

• Congenital Abnormalities of the Cervical Spine
• Spinal Cord Injuries and Rehabilitation
• Upper Cervical Spine Injuries
• Lower Cervical Spine Injuries
• Cervical Disc Disease
• Cervical Deformities
• Disorders at the Cervicothoracic Junction

Operative Techniques

• Surgical Approaches to the Craniocervical Junction and the Upper Cervical Spine
• Surgical Approaches to the Lower Cervical Spine
• Internal Fixation of the Cervical Spine

Thoracolumbar Spine

• Thoracolumbar Trauma
• Late Sequence of TL Trauma
• Thoracic Disc Disease and Myelopathy
• Differential Diagnosis of Low Back Pain and Chronic Low Back Pain
• Nonoperative Rx of Low Back Pain
• Lumbar Disc Disease
• Multiply-Operated Lumbar Spine
• Lumbar Spine Stenosis
• Segmented Instability
• Disorders of the Sacrum and Coccyx
• Bone Grafts Substitutes

Operative Techniques

• Surgical Approaches to the Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Spine
• Positioning and Approaches
• Lumbar Discectomy
• Decompression for Stenosis
• Posterolateral Lumbar Fusion
• Interbody Fusion
• Revision Decompressive/Disc Surgery
• Revision Fusion
• Reconstruction of the Osteoporotic Spine
• Bone Graft Harvest Techniques and Complications
• Complications (Discal Tear)

Index

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