Chapter 69 Nonoperative Management and Treatment of Spine Injuries Mark L. Prasarn, Glenn R. Rechtine, II The morbidity and mortality associated with injuries to the spine have been known since…
Chapter 3 History of Spine Biomechanics Sait Naderi, Varun R. Kshettry, I˙lker Gulec, Edward C. Benzel Biomechanics is the subdiscipline of spine surgery that employs the laws of physics to…
Chapter 117 Myelomeningocele and Associated Anomalies Mark G. Luciano, Samer K. Elbabaa Myelomeningocele, or spina bifida aperta, is defined as a dorsally protruding open spinal cord defect that usually is…
Chapter 79 Management of Soft Cervical Disc Herniation Controversies and Complication Avoidance Jan Goffin, Jeroen Ceuppens About 450 years ago, Vesalius described the intervertebral disc.1 It was not until 1928…
Chapter 107 Spondylectomy for Spinal Tumors Jean-Paul Wolinsky, Daniel M. Sciubba, Jorge Lastra-Power, Ziya Gokaslan Spondylectomy is defined as removal of an entire segment of the spine, including the vertebral…
Chapter 104 Spinal Dural Vascular Malformations H. Hunt Batjer, Tarun Bhalla, Alejandro Spiotta, Peter A. Rasmussen, Robert F. Spetzler The most common type of spinal cord arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is…
Chapter 140 Cervical Spine Construct Design Ricardo Fontes, Paul D. Sawin, Vijay K. Goel, Vincent C. Traynelis Fundamental Concepts Successful cervical spine instrumentation depends on several factors, including the nature…
Chapter 139 Cervical Spine Fusion Using Dynamic Ventral Cervical Plating Steven P. Leon, Denis DiAngelo, Edward C. Benzel, Hansen A. Yuan, Kevin T. Foley The benefits of rigid implants (i.e.,…
Chapter 207 Rationale for Practice Hygiene Coding, Reimbursement, and Nomenclature Gregory J. Przybylski Although the practice of spine surgery can be extremely complex, the evolving and ever-changing documentation and reporting…
