Cervical Disc Replacement
CHAPTER 43 Cervical Disc Replacement Joseph D. Smucker, MD, Rick C. Sasso, MD Cervical arthroplasty has undergone a dramatic evolution since the development of the original Bristol/Cummins device. Metal-on-metal implants…
Adult Isthmic Spondylolisthesis
CHAPTER 72 Adult Isthmic Spondylolisthesis Robert McGuire, Jr., MD Spondylolisthesis by definition is an anterior or posterior translational displacement of one vertebra on another. In the adult, this occurs in…
Cervical Instrumentation: Anterior and Posterior
CHAPTER 70 Cervical Instrumentation Anterior and Posterior Eeric Truumees, MD Overview In the late 1890s, Hadra of Galveston, Texas, stabilized a cervical fracture-dislocation in the first modern report of spine…
Minimally Invasive Posterior Approaches to the Spine
CHAPTER 56 Minimally Invasive Posterior Approaches to the Spine Choll W. Kim, MD, PhD, James D. Schwender, MD, Kevin Foley, MD The term minimally invasive spine (MIS) surgery describes a…
Pediatric Kyphosis: Scheuermann Disease and Congenital Deformity
CHAPTER 26 Pediatric Kyphosis Scheuermann Disease and Congenital Deformity Steven S. Agabegi, MD, Namdar Kazemi, MD, Alvin H. Crawford, MD The normal adult spine has four curves in the sagittal…
Postoperative Spinal Infections
CHAPTER 98 Postoperative Spinal Infections Jeremy Smith, MD, Nitin N. Bhatia, MD Postoperative spinal wound infections are relatively frequent problems that treating spine surgeons must know how to diagnose and…
Metabolic Bone Disorders of the Spine
CHAPTER 87 Metabolic Bone Disorders of the Spine Aasis Unnanuntana, MD, Roberto Miki, MD, Brian P. Gladnick, BA, Pamela J. Sherman, MD, Gigi R. Madore, MD, Joseph M. Lane, MD…
Minimally Invasive Posterior Lumbar Instrumentation
CHAPTER 57 Minimally Invasive Posterior Lumbar Instrumentation David Strothman, MD, James D. Schwender, MD Overview Over recent years minimally invasive surgical techniques have evolved to safely allow access to the…
Anterior Exposure to Lumbosacral Spine: Anatomy and Techniques
CHAPTER 19 Anterior Exposure to Lumbosacral Spine Anatomy and Techniques David S. Wernsing, MD, Richard Balderston, MD There has been an increasing need for access surgery to the lumbosacral spine….
Acute Treatment of Patients with Spinal Cord Injury
CHAPTER 81 Acute Treatment of Patients with Spinal Cord Injury Richard B. Rodgers, MD, Eric M. Horn, MD, PhD, Volker K.H. Sonntag, MD Since the implementation of emergency medical systems…
