ORTHOPEDIC

Posterior Thoracic Instrumentation/Fusion

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Posterior Thoracic Instrumentation/Fusion Dheera Ananthakrishnan Andrew H. Milby Illustrative Case The patient is a 55-year-old female with long-standing thoracic and lumbar idiopathic scoliosis with recurrent low back and bilateral leg…

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Costotransversectomy and Lateral Extracavitary Approach

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Costotransversectomy and Lateral Extracavitary Approach Andrew H. Milby John M. Rhee Illustrative Case A 47-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer presenting with severe thoracic back pain and myelopathy (Figures 15-1…

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Anterior Thoracic Corpectomy and Diskectomy

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Anterior Thoracic Corpectomy and Diskectomy Christopher T. Martin Dheera Ananthakrishnan Illustrative Case Assess the location of the pathology on axial imaging cuts and closely review the anatomy lateral to the…

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Cervical Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy

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Cervical Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy Andrew H. Milby John M. Rhee Illustrative Case A 68-year-old female with a history of prior anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion at another institution for myelopathy…

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C1-2 Instrumentation and Fusion

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C1-2 Instrumentation and Fusion Christopher T. Martin John M. Rhee Radiologic Assessment—Key Factors to Consider on X-ray, MRI, CT, etc Unrecognized vertebral artery anomalies are a potentially catastrophic source of…

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Occipitocervical Fixation and Fusion

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Occipitocervical Fixation and Fusion Andrew H. Milby John M. Rhee Illustrative Case A 51-year-old male presented to us with numerous craniocervical developmental abnormalities and severe cervical myelopathy because of occipitocervical…

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Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy

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Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy Ehsan Saadat John Heller John M. Rhee Illustrative Case A 33-year-old right-hand-dominant man with several months of severe L-arm radicular pain, and a L-sided C6-7 disk herniation…

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