Trauma Surgery: Lumbar and Sacral Fractures
Chapter 67 Trauma Surgery Lumbar and Sacral Fractures Chris J. Neal, Richard G. Fessler Fractures of the lumbosacral spine due to trauma involve injury to the portion of the spine…
Dorsal Dynamic Spine Stabilization
Chapter 164 Dorsal Dynamic Spine Stabilization Lissa C. Baird, Anthony Sin, Anil Nanda An estimated 1 million spine procedures are performed each year in the United States.1,2 The primary strategies…
Masqueraders of Spinal Pathology
Chapter 28 Masqueraders of Spinal Pathology Rick Placide, Michael DePalma, Daniel J. Mazanec It is not rare for spinal pathology to refer various symptoms to other parts of the body….
Iatrogenic Spine Destabilization
Chapter 153 Iatrogenic Spine Destabilization Mehmet Zileli, Nevan G. Baldwin, Edward C. Benzel An increased understanding of spinal mechanics, spinal cord physiology, anesthesia, critical care, and spinal instrumentation devices has…
Interbody Cages
Chapter 43 Interbody Cages Anthony A. Virella, Donald A. Smith, D. Mark Melton, David W. Cahill, Edward C. Benzel Anterior cervical discectomy and cervical corpectomy for decompression of degenerative disease,…
Timing of Decompression Surgery for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in a Patient with Complete Myelopathy
Chapter 229 Timing of Decompression Surgery for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in a Patient with Complete Myelopathy Presurgical Management Michelle Aubin, Christian P. DiPaola, Glenn R. Rechtine, II The majority…
Management of Symptomatic Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression
Chapter 220 Management of Symptomatic Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Vertebroplasty Krzysztof Siemionow, Robert F. McLain Osteoporosis is a bone mineralization disorder characterized by decreased bone density, disruption of trabecular architecture, and…
Retropleural Approach to the Ventral Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Spine
Chapter 52 Retropleural Approach to the Ventral Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Spine Paul C. McCormick Two of the most widely used approaches to the ventral thoracic and thoracolumbar spine are the…
Subaxial Cervical Spine Injuries
Chapter 64 Subaxial Cervical Spine Injuries Amirali Sayadipour, D. Greg Anderson, Sergey Mlyavykh, Olga Perlmutter, Alexander R. Vaccaro Cervical fractures are found in approximately 3% of all trauma patients.1 The…
Trauma Surgery: Occipitocervical Junction
Chapter 63 Trauma Surgery Occipitocervical Junction Miguel Lopez-Gonzalez, Curtis A. Dickman, Tanvir Choudhri, Jurgen Harms The occipitocervical junction includes the skull base at the foramen magnum, C1, C2, and the…
