Chapter 81 Minimal Access and Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy Basem I. Awad, Thomas E. Mroz, Michael P. Steinmetz Minimal Access Lumbar Discectomy Lumbar discectomy has become the most common neurosurgical procedure…
Chapter 228 Timing of Decompression Surgery for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in a Patient with an Incomplete Myelopathy Postural Nonoperative Management Adam W. Jackson, Patrick W. Hitchon The management of…
Chapter 124 Vascularized Bone Grafts in Spine Surgery Alok D. Sharan, Ashwini D. Sharan Bone grafting has had an important role in surgery since Barth first introduced bone-grafting techniques in…
Chapter 159 Biomechanics of Motion Preservation Techniques Todd B. Francis, Edward C. Benzel For many years, cervical and lumbar arthrodesis has been the gold standard of treatment for a wide…
Chapter 195 Postoperative Spinal Deformities Sigurd Berven, Eijiro Okada Definition Deformity of the spine encompasses malalignment in the coronal, sagittal, and axial planes. Spinal deformity may result from either pathologies…
Chapter 106 Primary Bony Spinal Lesions Patrick W. Hitchon, Timothy Lindley, Michael Ebersold General Discussion Primary tumors of the spine are extraordinarily uncommon. The incidence of primary spinal neoplasms has…
Chapter 68 Surgical Indications in Spine Trauma Eric Roger, Muhammad Zeeshan Memon Spine surgery should be straightforward. However, complex spinal fracture classification schemes, the mechanism of injury, and the biomechanics…
Chapter 163 Nuclear Replacement Satyajit Marawar, William F. Lavelle, Richard Tallarico, Hansen A. Yuan Spinal surgeons contend with back pain on a daily basis. Back pain has acquired epidemic proportions…
Chapter 76 Cervical Discectomy K. Daniel Riew, Charles H. Crawford, III Indications for Cervical Discectomy Age-related degeneration as well as trauma can lead to disc pathology requiring surgical excision. Commonly…
Chapter 121 Omental Transposition and Spine Surgery Emphasis on Revascularization and Scar Prevention Harry S. Goldsmith Editor’s note: In this chapter, the author has provided his unique perspective on an…
