Spinal reconstruction : clinical examples of applied basic science, biomechanics and engineering /
Lewandrowski, Kai-Uwe.
New York ; London : Informa Healthcare,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The role of minimally invasive surgery in instrumented lumbar fusion / Donald W. Kucharzyk and Thomas J. Milroy -- Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion / Mark R. Grubb -- Nonendoscopic percutaneous disc decompression as treatment of discogenic radiculopathy / Michael J. DePalma and Curtis W. Slipman -- Endoscopic decompression for lumbar spondylolysis: clinical and biomechanical observations / Koichi Sairyo ... [et al.] -- Improving the outcome of discectomy with specific attention to the annulus fibrosus / Kenneth Yonemura ... [et al.] -- The lumbar alligator spinal system - a simple and less invasive device for posterior lumbar fixation / Takeshi Fuji, Noboru Hosono, and Yasuji Kato -- Functional spinal stability: the role of the back muscles / Lieven A. Danneels, Guy G. Vanderstraeten, and Hugo J. De Cuyper -- Influence of injury or fusion of a single motion segment on other motion segments in the spine / Yuichi Kasai ... [et al.] -- Degenerative disease adjacent to spinal fusion / Patrick W. Hitchon ... [et al.] -- Adjacent segment degeneration / Adrian P. Jackson and Joseph H. Perm -- Quantifying the surgical risk factors for adjacent level degeneration in the lumbar spine: a meta-analysis of the published literature / Christopher M. Bono ... [et al.] -- Transition zone failure in patients undergoing instrumented lumbar fusions from L1 or L2 to the sacrum / Michael L. Swank, Adam G. Miller, and Leslie L. Korbee -- Adjacent intervertebral disc lesions following anterior cervical decompression and fusion: a minimum 10-year follow-up / Shunji Matsunaga ... [et al.] -- The role of biologics in lumbar interbody fusions / Donald W. Kucharzyk -- Current perspectives on biologic strategies for the therapy of intervertebral disc degeneration / Helen E. Gruber and Edward N. Hanley, Jr. -- Intervertebral disc growth factors / Mats Grönblad and Jukka Tolonen -- Biological manipulation for degenerative disc disease utilizing intradiscal osteogenic protein-1 (OP-1/BMP-7) injection - an animal study / Mamoru Kawakami ... [et al.] -- Clinical strategies for delivery of osteoinductive growth factors / Frank S. Hodges and Steven M. Theiss -- New adjunct in spine interbody fusion: designed bioabsorbable cage with cell-based gene therapy / Chia-Ying Lin ... [et al.] -- Scientific basis of interventional therapies for discogenic pain: neural mechanisms of discogenic pain / Yasuchika Aoki ... [et al.] -- Molecular diagnosis of spinal infection / Naomi Kobayashi ... [et al.] -- Review of the effect of COX-II agents on the healing of a lumbar spine arthrodesis / Mark R. Foster -- Motion preservation instead of spinal fusion / Aditya V. Ingalhalikar, Patrick W. Hitchon, and Tae-Hong Lim -- Intervertebral disc arthroplasty as an alternative to spinal fusion : rationale and biomechanical and design considerations / Andrew P. White, James P. Lawrence, and Jonathan N. Grauer -- Biomechanical aspects of the spine motion preservation systems / Vijay K. Goel ... [et al.] -- The ideal artificial lumbar intervertebral disc / Isador H. Lieberman, Edward Benzel, and E. Raymond S. Ross -- Artificial discs and their clinical track records / Rick B. Delamarter and Ben B. Pradhan -- Dynesys spinal instrumentation system /William C. Welch ... [et al] -- Clinical application of computer image guidance systems / Michael O. Kelleher, Linda McEvoy, and Ciaran Bolger -- Image-guided angled rongeur for posterior lumbar discectomy / Masahiko Kanamori and Kazuo Ohmori -- Radioscopic methods for introduction of pedicular screws: is a navigator necessary? / Matias Alfonso, Carlos Villas, and Jose Luis Beguiristain -- Bone graft materials used to augment spinal arthrodesis / Debdut Biswas, Jonathan N. Grauer, and Andrew P. White -- Current concepts in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty / Hwan Tak Hee -- Opportunities and challenges for bioabsorbable polymers in spinal reconstruction / David D. Hile, Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski, and Debra J. Trantolo -- Biomechanical properties of a newly designed bioabsorbable anterior cervical plate / Christopher P. Ames ... [et al.] -- The role of electrical stimulation in enhancing fusions with autograft, allograft, and bone graft substitutes / Donald W. Kucharzyk and Thomas J. Milroy -- An analysis of physical factors promoting bone healing or formation with special reference to the spine / Mark R. Foster -- Results of extended corpectomy, stabilization, and fusion of the cervical and cervico-thoracic spine / Frank L. Acosta, Jr., ... [et al.] -- Reconstruction of the cervical spine using artificial pedicle screws / Frank L. Acosta, Jr., Henry E. Aryan, and Christopher P. Ames -- Posterior fixation for atlantoaxial instability: various surgical techniques with wire and screw fixation / Naohisa Miyakoshi, Yoichi Shimada, and Michio Hongo.
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