Title: Pediatric spine surgery /
Authors: Weinstein, Stuart L.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Child; Infant; Orthopedic Procedures; Spinal Diseases surgery; Spinal Diseases; Spine Surgery; Spinal cord Surgery; Pediatric orthopedics.
Contents: Intraoperative considerations -- Anesthetic considerations -- Blood salvage -- Nerve conduction studies and electromyography -- Spinal cord monitoring -- Traction and casting -- Traction -- Casting -- Bone banking, grafting, and substitutes -- Biology of bone grafting: autografts, allografts, substitutes -- Bone grafting -- Surgical approaches and techniques -- Approaches -- Surgical approaches to the craniocervical junction -- Anterior and posterior surgical approaches to the cervical spine -- Surgical approaches to the thoracic and thoracolumbar spine -- Extracavity approaches to the thoracolumbar spine -- Surgical approaches to the lumbar spine -- Anterior and posterior approaches to the lumbosacral junction and sacrum -- Surgical techniques -- Anterior and posterior cervical spine fusion and instrumentation -- Posterior spinal fusion -- Anterior spinal surgery -- Vertebrectomy and spinal cord decompression -- Osteotomy and the pediatric spine -- Thoracoplasty -- Kyphectomy -- Decompensated spine -- Thoracoscopic spinal surgery -- Instrumentation: posterior -- Posterior distraction systems and combinations: Harrington rods -- Theory and mechanisms of posterior multiple hook/screw/rod devices -- Cotrel-Dubousset spinal instrumentation -- Moss Miami spinal instrumentation -- Isola spinal implant system update: emphasizing application during the first two decades of life -- Luque rod instrumentation -- Pedicle screw fixation -- Instrumentation: anterior -- Theories and mechanisms of anterior derotational spinal systems -- Anterior instrumentation techniques -- Instrumentation: lumbosacral -- Lumbosacral instrumentation -- Complications of surgery -- Complications of spinal surgery.