Image-Guided Spine Interventions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mathis, John M. (Editor), Golovac, Stanley (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• 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
• Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy
• Epidural Injections for the Treatment of Spine-Related Pain Syndromes
• Pulsed Radiofrequency Procedures in Clinical Practice
• Facet Joint Injections and Sacroiliac Joint Injections
• Autonomic Nerve Blockade
• Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
• Implanted Drug Delivery Systems
• Endovascular Treatment of Vascular and Nonvascular Diseases of the Spine
• Kyphoplasty: Balloon Assisted Vertebroplasty
• Sacroplasty
• Spinal Cord Stimulation: Uses and Applications.