Spine Surgery A Case-Based Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meyer, Bernhard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rauschmann, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Neurosurgery.; Orthopedics.; Surgical Orthopedics.

 This book covers the content of European postgraduate spine surgery courses, using a case-based approach. A step-wise solution to a real clinical problem is described and compared to the best available evidence. A weighted conclusion is provided on how to bridge the gap (if there is one) between standard of care and evidence-based medicine. Spine Surgery: A Case-Based Approach is aimed at postgraduate students of spine surgery (both trainee neurosurgeons and trainee orthopedic surgeons), and may also be of interest to medical students. 

 Part 1: Basics and Conservative Therapy -- Psychosomatics/behaviour therapy.-Indications for emergency treatment -- Part 2: Surgical treatment of degenerative cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal pathologies -- Anterior cervical sub-axial treatment (fusion) -- Cervical motion preserving procedures (TDR) -- Posterior motion preserving procedures (Frykholm, laminoplasty) -- Cervical myelopathy: indication and operative procedure -- Thoracic disc herniation and myelopathy -- Lumbar disc herniation, nucleo-and sequestrectomy -- Lumbar spinal stenosis -- Degenerative spondylolisthesis -- Slipped vertebra and degenerative lumbar scoliosis -- Lumbar non-fusion techniques -- Surgical treatment options at the sacroiliac joint -- Navigation in cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine -- Part 3: Deformity -- Diagnosis and conservativetreatment of AIS -- Operative treatment of AIS -- Congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis -- Adult scoliosis and complication management -- Conservative treatment options and indication for surgery in spondylolisthesis -- Operative treatment of spondylolisthesis -- Parameters of spinopelvic balance, etiology and pathogenesis of disturbed spinopelvic balance -- Diagnosis, classification, and general treatment options in hyperkyphosis -- Scheuermann Disease and M. Bechterew -- Surgical correction and special features in traumatic and congenital kyphotic deformities -- Part 4: Spinal fractures -- Pre-hospital management, physical examination, polytrauma management -- Upper cervical trauma (C0-C2) -- Subaxial cervical trauma (C2 - C7) -- Management criteria for thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbar fractures -- Conservative management of spinal fractures -- Sacral fractures -- Pediatric spine injuries -- Spine injuries in the elderly -- Injuries in ankylosed spine condition -- Part 5: Tumors of spine and inflammatory diseases -- Vertebral osteomyelitis -- Rheumatic diseases -- Metabolic bone diseases -- Primary tumors -- Metastases -- Part 6: Intradural pathologies -- Vascular malformations: arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)/Cavernoma, spinal dAVFs -- Inflammation of spinal cord (myelitis) -- Intradural, extramedullary tumors -- Intradural, intramedullary tumors -- Dysraphia, tethered cord, segmentation disorders -- Syringomyelia, sacral cysts -- Spinal cord injury - classification and diagnostics -- Spinal cord injury - surgical and pharmaceutical therapy -- Spontaneous CSF leak and ideopathic spinal cord herniation -- Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring -- Management of intraoperative dural tear -- Therapy of chronic pain syndromes (pumps, DCS, DBS, CS) -- Part 7: Extended indications and advanced operative techniques -- Craniocervical junction -- Basilar invagination -- Cervicothoracic junction -- Kyphosis in ankylosing spondylitis -- Thoracic spine -- Primary bone tumor -- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) -- Lumbar degenerative scoliosis -- Adult degenerative scoliosis -- Long vs short contructs -- High-grade lumbar spondylolisthesis -- Spondyloptosis -- Sacrum -- Intradural tumors -- Oligosymptomatic intramedullary lesion -- Part 8: Revisions and complication management -- Positioning of the patient and related complications -- Postlaminectomy kyphosis -- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (epidural scar) -- Adjacent segment degeneration -- Management of post-op infections -- Pseudoarthrosis management (case with implant failure) -- Coronal decompensation -- Proximal junctional kyphosis -- Blood management and thromboprophylaxis in spinal surgery -- Management of failure of osteoporotic fixation -- Visceral complications of deformity surgery (pulmonary, esophageal injury or chylothorax) -- Revision of adult deformity -- Iatrogenic neurologic injury -- Management of CSF fistula -- Management of mechanical failure of cervical spine -- Pitfalls of anterior lumbar revision surgery (vasculary or uretheral injury).