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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chapter 174 Postoperative Imaging Robert G. Whitmore, Zoher Ghogawala, William T. Curry, Jr., Sohrab Gollogly, Darrel S. Brodke Postoperative images of the spine are obtained for a wide variety of…
Chapter 90 Spinal Deformity Measuring, Defining, and Classifying Chad W. Farley, Charles Kuntz, IV The spine is composed of regions with distinct alignment and biomechanical properties that contribute to global…
Chapter 160 Cervical Total Disc Arthroplasty John H. Shin, Richard Schlenk Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) has been routinely used for the treatment of degenerative disease of the cervical…
Chapter 233 Traumatic Asymptomatic Vertebral Artery Injury Secondary to Facet Fracture Dislocation Do Nothing Girish K. Hiremath, Edward C. Benzel Vertebral artery injury (VAI) is a complication of cervical spine…
Chapter 88 Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament Nancy E. Epstein, Kazuo Yonenobu Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL), most typically found in males (2:1) in their mid 50s,…
