Chapter 162 Minimally Invasive Lumbar Microdiscectomy Indications and Techniques Luis M. Tumialan Since Mixter and Barr first elucidated the pathophysiology of lumbar radiculopathy in 1934, each subsequent generation of spine…
Chapter 87 Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Occlusive Disease Sabareesh K. Natarajan, Alexander A. Khalessi, Yuval Karmon, Adnan H. Siddiqui, L. Nelson Hopkins, Elad I. Levy Introduction Most common among the…
Chapter 129 Spinal Cord Stimulation and Intraspinal Infusions for Pain∗ Gilbert J. Fanciullo, Perry A. Ball The first clinical report of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) was published in 1967.1 Since…
Chapter 56 Supratentorial Tumors in the Pediatric Population Multidisciplinary Management Chetan Bettegowda, Linda C. Chen, Vivek A. Mehta, George I. Jallo, James T. Rutka Epidemiology In the pediatric population, primary…
Chapter 156 Management of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Michael P. Steinmetz, Rick J. Placide, Edward C. Benzel, Ajit A. Krishnaney Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is caused by a reduction of the…
Chapter 125 Neurovascular Decompression in Cranial Nerves V, VII, IX, and X Russell R. Lonser, Ronald I. Apfelbaum The compression of specific cranial nerves at their entrance to or exit…
Chapter 169 Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion M. Yashar S. Kalani, Mark Garrett, Nicholas Theodore The introduction of novel fixation techniques and instrumentation has resulted in their ever increasing application for…
Chapter 196 Imaging for Peripheral Nerve Disorders Aaron G. Filler Nerves can be seen in computed tomography (CT) scans and in routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. However, because they…
Chapter 179 Management of Sacral Fractures Carlo Bellabarba, Thomas A. Schildhauer, Jens R. Chapman Although the sacrum is integral to the biomechanical and neuroprotective roles of the spinal column and…
Chapter 173 Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty Indications and Techniques Clifford J. Eskey Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are minimally invasive, percutaneous procedures in which a fast-setting polymer is injected into a pathologic vertebral…
