Main description:

This concise textbook covers the full spectrum of spine surgery-related topics in a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow, readily accessible format. Addressing trauma, deformity, degeneration, oncology and infections, both in pediatric and adult patients, it provides a broad overview of this complex surgical discipline.
Subdivided into four parts, each chapter exhaustively addresses a clinical problem, ranging from signs and symptoms, physical examination through differential diagnoses and classification to treatment options, possible complications and follow-ups. In appendix the reader will find relevant classifications, indexes, questionnaires and quality of life assessments. Didactical videos complement the book illustrating essential basic spine surgery techniques in the daily practice.

Written by an international panel of experts this practical and handy guide is an invaluable tool for trainees of both orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery, spine fellows, and junior spine surgeons.

Contents:

Part-1 Pediatric Spine Trauma

1. Pediatric cervical injuries

2. Thoracolumbar Spine Injuries in Children

3 Atlanto-axial (C1-C2) subluxation and dislocation

4 Spinal Cord Injury without Radiographic Abnormality

Part-2 Adult Spine Trauma

5 Upper cervical injuries

6 Sub-axial cervical spine injuries

7 Thoracolumbar injuries

8 Sacral injuries

9 Spinal cord injury and related conditions

10 Osteoporotic fractures

Part-3 Pediatric Spine Pathology

11 Back pain in children

12 Congenital scoliosis

13 Early onset idiopathic scoliosis

14 Syndromic scoliosis

15 Early onset neuromuscular scoliosis

16 Idiopathic scoliosis: gebe

17 Progression risk of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis during puberty and natural history

18 Conservative Treatment for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

19 Determination of the fusion levels in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

20 Late onset neuromuscular scoliosis

21 Postural kyphosis

22 Scheuermann Disease

23 Cervical Kyphosis in Neurofibromatosis type I

24 Congenital kyphosis

25 Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis

26 Disc Bulging and Herniation in Children and Adolescents

27 Schmorl's nodes

28 Congenital Torticollis (torticollis not related to trauma)

29 Klippel Feil Syndrome

30 Chiari malformation

31 Spinal dysraphism

32 Sacralization of the 5th Lumbar Vertebra

33 Osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma

34 Osteochondroma

35 Eosinophilic Granuloma (Vertebra Plana)

36 Medulloblastoma and other seeding tumors

37 Spinal astrocytoma

38 Osteosarcoma

39 Ewing sarcoma

40 Discitis in Pediatric spine

Part-4 Adult Spine Pathology

41 Back pain and its generators

42 Cervical degenerative disc disease (including cervical disc herniation)

43 Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM)

44 Thoracic disc herniation

45 Lumbar degenerative disc disease (including lumbar disc herniation)

46 Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

47 Degenerative instability

48 Neglected idiopathic scoliosis

49 De Novo deformity

50 Sagittal plane malalignment

51 Post-traumatic Kyhphosis

52 Post-infectious deformity

53 Paget's disease

54 Ankylosing disorders of the spine: AS and DISH

55 Vertebral Hemangioma

56 Aneurismal bone cyst

57 Giant cell tumor

58 Spinal Meningioma

59 Spinal Nerve Sheath Tumor

60 Spinal Ependymoma

61 Plasmacytoma

62 Chordoma

63 Metastatic lesions of spine

64 Tuberculosis of spine

65 Pyogenic spondylodiscitis

66 Post-surgical spinal infection