The Resident's Guide to Spine Surgery

Description:

With an emphasis on set-up and execution and lessons learned from expert practitioners, this concise, practical guide for residents and fellows presents the essentials for both common and complex spine surgery. Proceeding anatomically from the cervical to the sacroiliac, and including chapters on spinal tumors, infection and revision surgery, nearly 40 different procedures are highlighted, from corpectomy, arthroplasty and laminectomy to percutaneous screws, decompression and fusion. Chapters include all the information a resident will need to know: indications and contraindications, imaging and diagnosis, OR set-up and instrumentation selection, the specific operative technique, post-operative protocols, and clinical pearls and pitfalls. Radiographs and full-color intraoperative photographs accompany each procedure.   Whether suturing dura or performing a lateral interbody fusion, spinal surgery is a technical pursuit, and having a firm grasp of the details can ultimately determine the procedure's success. Written and edited by veterans in orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery, The Resident's Guide to Spine Surgery is just the detailed, user-friendly resource for up-and-coming clinicians looking to develop and expand their surgical expertise.  

Table of Contents:

1. Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion

2. Cervical Corpectomy

3. Cervical Disc Arthroplasty

4. Posterior Cervical Positioning

5. Posterior Cervical Fusion Surgery: Occiput to C2

6. Posterior Cervical Laminectomy and Fusion Surgery C3-C7

7. Cervical Laminoplasty

8. Minimally Invasive Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy and Discectomy

9. Thoracic Posterior Instrumentation Without Scoliosis

10. Posterior Thoracic Instrumentation for Scoliosis

11. Anterior Thoracic Decompression and Fusion: Open and Minimally Invasive

12. Thoracic Corpectomy: Indications and Techniques

13. Thoracic Discectomy

14. Lumbar Microdiscectomy

15. Approaching Far Lateral Disc Herniations: The MIS Perspective

16. Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Posterior Spinal Instrumentation and Fusion

17. Lumbar Corpectomy

18. Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

19. Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion L3–L4, L4–L5

20. Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion L1–2, L2–3

21. The Ante-Psoas Approach for Lumbar Interbody Fusion

22. Anterior Lumbar Surgery

23. Lumbar Total Disc Replacement

24. Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Lumbar Scoliosis

25. Percutaneous Lumbar Screws

26. Percutaneous Iliac and S2AI Fixation

27. Anterior Odontoid Screws: Tips and Tricks

28. Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak After Spine Surgery

29. Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Joint Fusion

30. Treatment Considerations for Pyogenic Spinal Infection

31. Revision Lumber Decompressions

32. Revision Pedicle Screw Strategies

33. Revision Strategies for Cervical Spine Surgery

34. Metastatic Tumor Stabilization

35. Intradural Tumor Resection

36. Cervical Spine Trauma

37. Anterior Approach to the Lumbosacral Spine

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