Medical Complications
Chapter 199 Medical Complications Robert G. Louis, Monir N. Tabbosha, Mark E. Shaffrey The morbidity and mortality that result from medical complications of complex spine surgery have been extensively documented….
Prevention of Operative Infections: An Evidence-Based Approach
Chapter 198 Prevention of Operative Infections An Evidence-Based Approach G. Alexander Jones, Vincent Miele, Edward C. Benzel Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a known problem in spinal surgery. According to…
Spine Infection
Chapter 197 Spine Infection Kyle I. Swanson, Kene Ugokwe, Seth M. Zeidman, Thomas B. Ducker, Gregory R. Trost Postoperative Spine Infection Infectious complications of spine surgery are not uncommon and…
Neurologic Complications of Common Spine Operations
Chapter 193 Neurologic Complications of Common Spine Operations David G. Malone, John R. Caruso, Robert F. McLain Whether the result of surgical or treatment errors, or anatomic or physiologic conditions…
Psychosocial Aspects and Work-Related Issues Regarding Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease
Chapter 190 Psychosocial Aspects and Work-Related Issues Regarding Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease Andrew M. Bauer, Daniel K. Resnick There are few diseases that are so pervasive, yet so difficult to…
Medical Management of Neck and Low Back Pain
Chapter 188 Medical Management of Neck and Low Back Pain Daniel J. Mazanec, Russell C. DeMicco Back pain is common and costly. It was the most frequent type of pain…
Medical Management of the Patient with Acute Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 183 Medical Management of the Patient with Acute Spinal Cord Injury S. Scott Lollis, Perry A. Ball Epidemiology Spinal cord injury (SCI) has an incidence of approximately 40 cases…
Spinal Deformity and Correction: The Fundamentals
Chapter 91 Spinal Deformity and Correction The Fundamentals Michael P. Steinmetz, Edward C. Benzel, Lawrence G. Lenke Spinal deformity is a three-dimensional alteration of spinal alignment in both the coronal…
Cervical Laminoplasty
Chapter 46 Cervical Laminoplasty Noboru Hosono, Kazuo Yonenobu General Principles and History Laminectomy was first introduced to release the spinal cord compressed at multiple levels, although it fell into relative…
Total Disc Arthroplasty: Associated Complications
Chapter 167 Total Disc Arthroplasty Associated Complications Robert Talac Surgical management of chronic low back pain remains challenging. Although lumbar fusion remains the gold standard, novel motion-sparing technologies are now…
