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This outstanding guide to spine surgery provides step-by-step instructions to nearly 60 different spinal procedures. Each chapter is written by top international experts who offer their clinical knowledge and years of experience. Approximately 400 high quality illustrations enhance the text by providing detailed examples of the procedures. The text covers everything from anterior odontoid resection, cervical corpectomy, and thoracic fixation techniques, to anterior thoracoplasty, lateral discectomy, and scoliosis correction. Within each chapter, you'll find indications, contraindications, procedural steps, pearls, pitfalls, and postoperative care tips. A valuable resource for residents and practitioners in orthopedics, spine surgery, and neurosurgery. Table of Contents Foreword Preface Contributors Section I. The Cervical Spine 1. Occipitocervical Junction:Decompression And Fusion Michael F. O’Brien 2. Anterior Odontoid Resection Dimos Bouramas And Alan Crockard 3. Odontoid Fixation Pasquale X. Montesano And Christopher O. Neubuerger 4. C1-C2 Fusion (Posterior Screw Fixation) Dieter Grob 5. Far Lateral Approach To The Cervical Spine Christopher J. Dewald 6. Anterior Cervical Corpectomy Eeric Truumees And Harry N. Herkowitz 7. Multiple-Level Cervical Vertebrectomy (Corpectomy) And Stabilization Using Cortical Bone Thomas S. Whitecloud Iii And Orderia Mitchell 8. Cervical Laminoplasty Kazumasa Ueyama, Po-Quang Chen, And Seiko Harata 9. Posterior Cervical Laminectomy And Fusion J. Paul Elliott And Anthony P. Dwyer 10. Open Door Laminoplasty For The Treatment Of Cervical Spondylolytic Myelopathy Joseph Riina And David G. Schwartz 11. Posterior Wiring Techniques Of The Spine Alexander R. Vaccaro And Kush Singh 12. Posterior Cervical Plating Techniques Jeffrey J. Wise And Howard S. An 13. Anterior Cervical Disc Surgery:Technical Challen William Dillin 14. Revision Disc Surgery:Technical Challenges William Dillin 15. Cervical Thoracic Fixation Techniques Marshal D. Peris And William F. Donaldson Section II. The Thoracic Spine 16. Vertebroplasty And Kyphoplasty In The Treatment Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures H. Claude Sagi And Hansen A. Yuan 17. Thoracic Pedicle Screws: Pedicular Approach Archibald H. Von Strempel 18. Extrapedicular Screw Placement In The Thoracic Spine Peter Metz-Stavenhagen And Walter Morgenstern 19. Thoracic Disc Disease:Retropleural Approach John M. Gorup And David H. Donaldson 20. Vertebral Corpectomy For Thoracic Tumor Or Infection Robert F. Mclain And Ranjith R. Kuzhupilly 21. Posterior Techniques For Thoracic Disc Disorders Raj Murali 22. Posterior Column Shortening For Scheuermann’S Kyphosis: An Innovative One-Stage Technique Alberto Ponte 23. Anterior Release And Posterior Instrumentation And Fusion For Scheuermann’S Kyphosis Thomas G. Lowe 24. A New Classification System Of Adolescent Diopathic Scoliosis Lawrence G. Lenke 25. Anterior Correction And Instrumentation For Thoracic Scoliosis Thomas R. Haher And Andrew A. Merola 26. Concave Thoracoplasty For Stiff Thoracic Scoliosis Peter Metz-Stavenhagen And Walter Morgenstern 27. Convex Thoracoplasty Randal R. Betz And Howard H. Steel 28. Anterior Thoracoplasty Harry L. Shufflebarger 29. Anterior Correction Of Thoracic Scoliosis Using The Kaneda Anterior Scoliosis System (Kass) Kiyoshi Kaneda And Yasuhiro Shono 30. Posterior Scoliosis Correction Of King Ii Curves: Hooks And Rods Lawrence G. Lenke 31. Posterior Scoliosis Correction:Double Major Curves Keith H. Bridwell 32. Posterior Scoliosis Correction:King Type V/ Double Thoracic Curves Keith H. Bridwell 33. Posterior Scoliosis Correction:Pedicle Screws Se-Il Suk And Won-Joong Kim 34. Anterior Thoracoscopic Release For Spinal Deformity Mark Weidenbaum And Mladen Djurasovic 35. The Accordion Procedure For Management Of Rigid Thoracic Scoliosis James E. Shook And Walter H. Burnham, Jr. 36. Correction Of Neuromuscular Pelvic Obliquity: The Domino Technique Baron S. Lonner 37. Thoracic Vertebrectomy For Congenital Deformity James W. Ogilvie 38. Prevention And Treatment Of The Crankshaft Phenomeno John P. Lubicky 39. Thoracic Scoliosis:Vertebral Resection Kirkham B. Wood 40. Technique Of Sublaminar Wire Passage Vincent J. Devlin And Marc A. Asher Eurostile Section III. The Lumbar Spine 41. Hook Patterns For The Preservation Of Lumbar Lordo Joseph W. Dryer, Emile Cheung, And Gordon Lee Engler 42. Apical Overcorrection And Lordosis Reconstruction Of Thoracolumbar Idiopathic Scoliosis Joseph Y. Margulies, Lawrence I. Karlin, And Marc A. Asher 43. Microdiscectomy David Lee Spencer And Avi J. Bernstein 44. Far Lateral Discectomy Kurt W. Von Rueden And Laura B. Flawn 45. En-Bloc (“Trap-Door”) Laminectomy Of The Lumbar Spine Avi J. Bernstein And David Lee Spencer 46. Lumbar Pedicle Fixation Vincent J. Devlin And Marc A. Asher 47. Lumbar Corpectomy Patrick J. Connolly 48. Smith-Peterson-Type Osteotomy Vincent J. Devlin 49. Osteotomy For Ankylosing Spondylitis Edward D. Simmons 50. Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy Courtney W. Brown And Douglas C. Wong 51. Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Anthony P. Dwyer And J. Paul Elliott 52. Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion David W. Polly, Jr. And Jürgen Harms 53. Total Lumbar Disc Replacement Using The Sb Iii Charite Prosthesis Fabien D. Bitan, Michael G. Neuwirth, And Norman Bloom 54. Anterior And Posterior Decompression And Stabilization In Patients With Metastatic Disease Using The Transpedicular Approach Fintan J. Shannon And Patrick J. Boland 55. Spondylolysis Repair:Modified Scott Wire Technique Kim W. Hammerberg And James M. Osborn 56. Decompression For Lumbar Fractures:Posterior Behrooz A. Akbarnia 57. Anterior Threaded Cage Revision Surgery Tae M. Shin And Robert J. Banco 58. Reduction Of Spondylolisthesis With Pedicle Screw Fixation And Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion Thomas A. St. John And Todd J. Albert 59. Coccygectomy Franco P. Cerabona Index