Radiologic Anatomy of the Spine
Chapter 3 Radiologic Anatomy of the Spine Hak-Jin Kim, MD, PhD The cervical spine The first two cervical vertebrae, the atlas and the axis, and the last cervical vertebra are…
Current Understanding of Spinal Pain and the Nomenclature of Lumbar Disc Pathology
Chapter 2 Current Understanding of Spinal Pain and the Nomenclature of Lumbar Disc Pathology Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Inn-Se Kim, MD, PhD Any structure to be deemed a cause of…
Diagnosis and Treatment of Spinal Pain
Chapter 1 Diagnosis and Treatment of Spinal Pain Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Daniel H. Kim, MD, FACS Classifications of spinal pain Low back pain (LBP) is defined as pain and…
Percutaneous Translaminar Facet Pedicle Screw Fixation
Chapter 31 Percutaneous Translaminar Facet Pedicle Screw Fixation Chan-Shik Shim, MD, PhD, Jee-Soo Jang, MD, PhD, Sang-Ho Lee, MD, PhD Percutaneous translaminar facet pedicle screw fixation is a minimally invasive…
Interspinous Spacers
Chapter 33 Interspinous Spacers John H. Shim, MD, MBA, FACS, Jason S. Mazza, MSc, OPA-C, Daniel H. Kim, MD, FACS More than 2 million physician-related visits yearly can be attributed…
Lateral Interbody Fusion Using the XLIF System
Chapter 37 Lateral Interbody Fusion Using the Xlif System Luiz M. Pimenta, MD, PhD, Carlos F. Arias, MD, Juliano Lhamby, MD, Leonardo Oliveira, BSc, Thomas Schaffa, MD, Etevaldo Coutinho, MD…
Posterior Lumbar Foraminal Decompression
Chapter 28 Posterior Lumbar Foraminal Decompression Hansjoerg Franz Leu, MD Since the first publication by Hijikata and colleagues [1] in 1975 on purely percutaneous intradiscal lumbar disc decompression, several developments…
Atlantooccipital and Atlantoaxial Joint Block for Cervicogenic Headache
Chapter 9 Atlantooccipital and Atlantoaxial Joint Block for Cervicogenic Headache Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Seong-Wan Baik, MD, PhD Cervicogenic headache Cervicogenic headache is defined a unilateral headache defined by the…
