Image-Guided Spine Interventions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Johnson, Blake A. (Editor), Staats, Peter S. (Editor), Wetzel, F. Todd (Editor), Mathis, John M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2004.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Radiology.; Interventional radiology.; Neurosurgery.; Orthopedics.; Pain medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Interventional Radiology.; Pain Medicine.

As image-guided spine interventions have increasingly become a primary strategy for managing back pain, the tools and capabilities available to practitioners have grown significantly. This fully revised edition of Image-Guided Spine Interventions presents the latest procedures available to physician...

Table of Contents:

• Spine Anatomy
• Materials Used in Image-Guided Spine Interventions
• Patient Evaluation and Criteria for Procedure Selection
• The Surgeon’s Perspective: Image-Guided Therapy and Its Relationship to Conventional Surgical Management
• Image-Guided Percutaneous Spine Biopsy
• Discography
• Intradiscal Electrothermal Annuloplasty
• Automated Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy in the Treatment of Herniated Discs
• Epidural Steroid Injections and Selective Nerve Blocks
• Diagnostic Epidurography and Therapeutic Epidurolysis
• Facet Joint Injections
• Autonomic Nerve Blockade
• Sacroiliac Joint Injection
• Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
• Implanted Drug Delivery Systems
• Endovascular Therapy of the Spine
• Epidural Blood and Fibrin Patches
• Balloon Kyphoplasty
• Intradiscal Oxygen-Ozone in the Treatment of Herniated Lumbar Disc.