Spine Surgery

Description:

This book covers the content of European postgraduate spine surgery courses, using a case-based approach. It describes a stepwise solution to a real-world clinical problem and compares this with the best available evidence. It then provides suggestions on how to bridge the gap (if there is one) between standard of care and evidence-based medicine. Spine Surgery: A Case-Based Approach is aimed at postgraduate students of spine surgery (both trainee neurosurgeons and trainee orthopedic surgeons), and is also of interest to medical students.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Basic Module 1: Conservative Therapy

1. Treatment for Acute, Subacute and Chronic Low Back Pain

2. Indications for Emergency Surgical Treatment

Part II. Basic Module 2: Surgical Treatment of Degenerative Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Spinal Pathologies

3. Anterior Cervical Subaxial Treatment (Fusion)

4. Cervical Motion Preserving Procedures (TDR)

5. Posterior ‘Motion Preserving’ Procedures (Frykholm)

6. Cervical Myelopathy: Indication and Operative Procedure

7. Cervical Posterior Long Construct Stabilization

8. Thoracic Disc Herniation and Myelopathy

9. Lumbar Disc Herniation, Nucleo- and Sequesterectomy

10. Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Requiring Decompression and Fusion

11. Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

12. Degenerative Spondylolisthesis

13. Basic Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis

14. Thoracolumbar Instrumentation and Fusion for Degenerative Disc Disease

15. Lumbar Non-Fusion Techniques

16. Management of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

17. Surgical Treatment Options at the Sacroiliac Joint

18. Navigation of the Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Spine

Part III. Basic Module 3: Deformity

19. Natural Course and Classification of Idiopathic Scoliosis

20. Diagnosis and Conservative Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Case Presentation

21. Idiopathic Scoliosis: Operative Treatment

22. A Congenital Scoliosis Case Characterized with Contralateral Hemivertebrae

23. Delayed Neurological Deficit and Surgical Site Infection After Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy in a Revision Case

24. Operative Treatment of High-Grade Spondylolisthesis

25. Parameters of Spino-Pelvic Balance, Etiology and Pathogenesis of Disturbed Spino-Pelvic Balance

26. Diagnosis, Classification and General Treatment Options for Hyperkyphosis

27. Scheuermann Kyphosis and Ankylosing Spondylitis

28. Surgical Correction and Special Features in Traumatic and Congenital Kyphotic Deformities

Part IV. Basic Module 4: Spinal Fractures

29. Epidemiology & Classification

30. Pre-Hospital Management, Physical Examination & Polytrauma Management

31. Spinal Cord Injury

32. Upper Cervical Spine Trauma

33. Subaxial Cervical Trauma

34. Management Criteria for Thoracic, Thoracolumbar and Lumbar Fractures

35. Posterior Surgical Management of Thoracic and Lumbar Fractures

36. Anterior Surgical Management of Thoracic and Lumbar Fractures

37. Sacral Fractures

38. Spine Injuries in the Elderly

39. Spinal Trauma in Patients with Ankylosing Spinal Conditions

Part V. Basic Module 5: Tumors of Spine and Inflammatory Diseases

40. Vertebral Osteomyelitis: Etiology, Pathogenesis, Routes of Spread Symptoms and Diagnosis

41. Pyogenic Infection Following Single Level Nucleotomy

42. Diagnostics and Treatment of C1/C2-Instability in Rheumatoid Arthritis

43. Treatment Options in Severe Cervico-Thoracal Deformity in “Bechterew’s Disease”

44. Diagnosis and Treatment of the Occipito-Atlantoaxial Complex and Subaxial Cervical Spine in Rheumatoid Diseases

45. Osteoporosis (Etiology, Diagnosis, Drug Therapy, Surgical Therapy)

46. Benign Tumors and Tumor Like Lesions

47. Primary Malignant Tumors

48. Secondary Malignant Tumors (Diagnosis, Staging, Surgical Treatment and Adjuvant Therapy)

Part VI. Advanced Module 1: Extended Indications and Advanced Operative Techniques

49. Indications for Craniocervical Surgery and Anterior Resection Techniques (Endonasal, Transoral)

50. C0/C1/C2 Instrumentation Techniques

51. Basilar Invagination

52. Corpectomies and Osteotomies in the Upper Thoracic Spine and Cervicothoracic Region

53. Cervicothoracic Kyphosis in Ankylosing Spondilitis

54. Sagittal Balance and Preoperative Planning

55. Technical Execution of Correction Osteotomies (SPO, PSO, etc.)

56. Instrumentation Techniques Including Sacral and Pelvic Fixation

57. Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis

58. Long Versus Short Constructs

59. In Situ Fusion Versus Realignment

60. Surgical Management of Developmental High-Grade Spondylolisthesis

61. Indications and Technique of Thoracic En Bloc Resections

62. Primary Bone Tumour Indication and Planning of En Bloc Resection

63. Minimally Invasive (Long) Dorsal Instrumentation Including Augmentation for Metastasis

64. En Bloc Resection for Metastatic Disease

65. Principles of Posterior Surgery in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

66. Tumors of the Sacrum

67. Radical Excision Is Beneficial for Chordoma?

68. Intradural Extramedullary Lesions

69. Indications and Technique for Intradural Intramedullary Lesions

Part VII. Advanced Module 2: Complications and Management

70. Safety Checklist for Spine Patients

71. Positioning of the Patient and Related Complications

72. Post-laminectomy Kyphosis

73. Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: The Scar Is a Myth

74. Adjacent Segment Disease with 13 Years Follow Up and Five Operations

75. Management of Postoperative Infections

76. Management of Pseudarthrosis with Implant Failure

77. Proximal Junctional Kyphosis Despite Best Efforts in Planning and Execution

78. Management of Failure of Osteoporotic Fixation

79. Postoperative C5 palsy

80. Nonspinal Complications

81. Management of CSF Fistula

Correction to: Diagnosis and Treatment of the Occipito-Atlantoaxial Complex and Subaxial Cervical Spine in Rheumatoid Diseases

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