Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery: The Spine

Part of the highly regarded Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery® series,The Spine, Fourth Edition, is a concise, lavishly illustrated reference covering the most advanced, successful surgical techniques for the spine—all in step-by-step detail. Edited by Drs. Todd J. Albert and Thomas A. Zdeblick, this fully revised edition presents the preferred techniques of surgical masters, illustrated with sequential, surgeon’s-eye view intraoperative photographs, as well as superb drawings by noted medical illustrators. New contributing authors and new and rewritten chapters keep you fully up to date with recent changes in the field. 

Table of Contents:

PART ONE Cervical Spine

CHAPTER 1 Anterior Cervical Approach

CHAPTER 2 Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion

CHAPTER 3 Cervical Disc Arthroplasty

CHAPTER 4 Cervical Vertebrectomy and Plating

CHAPTER 5 Cervical Osteotomies: Considerations and Techniques

CHAPTER 6 Anterior Odontoid Fixation

CHAPTER 7 Anterior Cervicothoracic Approach

CHAPTER 8 Posterior Cervical Microdiscectomy/Foraminotomy

CHAPTER 9 Cervical Laminoplasty

CHAPTER 10 Posterior Cervical Laminectomy With Fusion

CHAPTER 11 C1-C2 Posterior Cervical Fixation

CHAPTER 12 Posterior Occipitocervical Fusion

PART TWO Thoracolumbar Spine Thoracolumbar Spine

CHAPTER 13 Anterior Thoracolumbar Extensile Approach

CHAPTER 14 Endoscopic and Anterior Approaches for Spinal Deformity Surgery in the Adolescent and Young Adult

CHAPTER 15 Hemivertebrae Excision for Congenital Scoliosis

CHAPTER 16 Anterolateral Thoracolumbar Corpectomy and Stabilization

CHAPTER 17 Anterior Thoracoscopic Discectomy

CHAPTER 18 Posterior Spinal Fixation for Thoracolumbar Spinal Trauma

CHAPTER 19 Posterior Spinal Instrumentation Techniques for Spinal Deformity

CHAPTER 20 Lumbar Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy

CHAPTER 21 Vertebral Resection for the Correction of Fixed Coronal Deformity

PART THREE Lumbar Spine Lumbar Spine

CHAPTER 22 Lumbar Microdiscectomy

CHAPTER 23 Tubular Microdiscectomy

CHAPTER 24 Transpedicular Fixation: Open

CHAPTER 25 Percutaneous Transpedicular Fixation: Minimally Invasive

CHAPTER 26 Transforaminal Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion

CHAPTER 27 MIS Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

CHAPTER 28 Mini Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion

CHAPTER 29 Lumbar Disc Arthroplasty

CHAPTER 30 Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion

CHAPTER 31 Lumbopelvic Fixation: Open and Percutaneous

PART FOUR Tumor Resection Tumor Resection

CHAPTER 32 Techniques for Intradural Tumor Resection

Index