Advanced Scientific Considerations for Surgery in Patients with Lumbar Disk Herniation
Recommendation 1 Do not operate in case of isolated low back pain 2 Do not operate with short existence of leg pain (<6 weeks), but also do not wait…
Lessons from a Life: The Journey of Spinal Neurosurgery in the United States
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016João Luiz Pinheiro-Franco, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Edward C. Benzel and H. Michael Mayer (eds.)Advanced Concepts in Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease10.1007/978-3-662-47756-4_55 55. Lessons from a Life: The Journey of Spinal Neurosurgery in the United…
Lessons from 35 Years in the Trenches
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016João Luiz Pinheiro-Franco, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Edward C. Benzel and H. Michael Mayer (eds.)Advanced Concepts in Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease10.1007/978-3-662-47756-4_52 52. Lessons from 35 Years in the Trenches Edward C. Benzel1 , Kene Ugokwe2 and Nina Z. Moore3 (1)…
Lessons Learned from a Life
10. Bouillet R. Treatment of sciatica. A comparative survey of complications of surgical treatment and nucleolysis with chymopapain. Clin Orthop Rel Res. 1990;251:144–51. 11. Onik G. Percutaneous lumbar diskectomy using…
Rational Evaluation and Management of the Patient with Spinal Pain
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016João Luiz Pinheiro-Franco, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Edward C. Benzel and H. Michael Mayer (eds.)Advanced Concepts in Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease10.1007/978-3-662-47756-4_50 50. Rational Evaluation and Management of the Patient with Spinal Pain Donlin M. Long1 (1)…
Bone Substitutes
3. Boden SD, Schimandle JH, Hutton WC, Chen MI. Volvo award in basic sciences. The use of an osteoinductive growth factor for lumbar spinal fusion. Part I: biology of spinal…
Adjacent Segment Disease: Natural History of Lumbar Degeneration or Consequence of Fusion?
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016João Luiz Pinheiro-Franco, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Edward C. Benzel and H. Michael Mayer (eds.)Advanced Concepts in Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease10.1007/978-3-662-47756-4_23 23. Adjacent Segment Disease: Natural History of Lumbar Degeneration or Consequence of Fusion?…
To Fuse or Not to Fuse: That’s the Question
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016João Luiz Pinheiro-Franco, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Edward C. Benzel and H. Michael Mayer (eds.)Advanced Concepts in Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease10.1007/978-3-662-47756-4_21 21. To Fuse or Not to Fuse: That’s the Question Ryan P. Ponton1 , Eric B. Harris1 and…
Outcome Measures for Spinal Surgery
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016João Luiz Pinheiro-Franco, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Edward C. Benzel and H. Michael Mayer (eds.)Advanced Concepts in Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease10.1007/978-3-662-47756-4_14 14. Outcome Measures for Spinal Surgery Elizabeth P. Norheim1 , Steven D. Glassman2 and Leah Yacat Carreon1 (1) Norton Leatherman…
Legal Aspects in the Surgical Treatment of Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016João Luiz Pinheiro-Franco, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Edward C. Benzel and H. Michael Mayer (eds.)Advanced Concepts in Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease10.1007/978-3-662-47756-4_12 12. Legal Aspects in the Surgical Treatment of Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease Vincent C. Traynelis1 …
