Challenging Cases in Spine Surgery / / by: Abdulhak, Muwaffak, Marzouk, Shaden

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972121503321
• Autore: Abdulhak Muwaffak
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Thieme, c2006
• ISBN: 9786612864995; 9781638532491; 1638532494; 9781604064896; 1604064897
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 617.5/6059
• Soggetti: Spine - Surgery
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Odontoid fracture type I -- Transodontoid screw for type II odontoid fracture -- Nonunion of a type II odontoid fracture -- Atlantoaxial instability -- Bilateral locked facets -- Cervical kyphosis -- Spinal trauma -- Ankylosing spondylitis -- Esophageal injury -- Traumatic thoracic fracture -- Lumbar fracture -- Burst fracture -- Traumatic lumbar fracture -- Multiple burst fractures -- Sacral fracture / Rahul Vaidya and Marilyn Gates -- Atlanto-occipital dislocation / Eric Spickler -- Cranial settling -- Rheumatoid arthritis -- Rheumatoid patient with ventral cord compression -- Rheumatoid arthritis with instability -- Percutaneous cervical decompression -- Cervical cages -- Mechanical neck pain --; Multilevel anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) -- Hardware failure -- Postoperative kyphosis -- Multilevel cervical stenosis -- Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) -- Cervical myelopathy -- Cervical hardware failure -- Central cord with osteoporosis -- Pseudomeningocele -- Angioedema -- Thoracic disc -- Syrinx -- Transverse myelitis -- Discogenic back pain -- Adjacent segment disease -- Motion preservation technology -- Percutaneous lumbar laminotomies and foraminotomies -- Large disc herniation ; treated percutaneously -- Segmental instability -- Lumbar instability and radiculopathy -- Foot drop -- Pars defect -- High-grade spondylolisthesis --; Multilevel posterior lumbar interbody fusion -- Bone morphogenetic protein -- Degenerative scoliosis -- Nerve root impingement by pedicle screw -- Lumbar scoliosis -- Degenerative lumbar spine disease with segmental instability -- Lumbar nonunion -- Mechanical back with previous posterior fusion -- Osteoporosis -- Metastatic lesion -- Plasmacytoma with postembolization swelling -- Thoracic tumor -- Thoracolumbar instrumentation failure -- Thoracic screw misplacement -- Recurrent giant cell tumor -- Lumbosacral giant cell tumor with segmental instability -- Large upper cervical nerve sheath tumor -- Benign thoracic tumor -- Spinal tumor / Asim Mahmood -- Lumbar schwannoma -- Metastatic spinal cord lesion -- Sacral lesion -- Recurrent sacral tumor -- Spinal epidural abscess -- Thoracic osteomyelitis -- Pott's disease -- Intramedullary cervical lesion -- Klippel-Feil spine -- Klippel-Feil Syndrome -- Cervical rib -- Ankylosing hyperostosis of Forestier and Rotes-Querol -- Fibrous dysplasia -- Diastematomyelia -- Spinal teratoma -- Congenital abnormality of the spine -- Thoracic arteriovenous fistula -- Arachnoid cyst -- Achondroplasia -- Arachnoiditis -- Spinal deformity -- Tethered cord.
• Sommario/riassunto: With more than 80 complex spine surgery cases and its streamlined case example format, this is an ideal clinical reference for the professional practice. _x000D__x000D_The ...