Spine surgery : techniques, complication avoidance, and management (1999)

What Is a Complication of Spine Surgery?. History. Section 1: The Fundamentals: Differential Diagnosis of Surgical Disorders of the Spine. Anatomy and Pathophysiology of Congenital Spinal Lesions. Anatomy and Pathophysiology of Acquired Spinal Lesions. Practical Anatomy and Fundamental Biomechanics. Materials and Material Properties. Fundamentals of the Spine Surgery Decision-Making Process. Preoperative and Surgical Planning for Avoiding Complications. Section Ii: Surgical Approaches and Exposures of the Vertebral Column: the Cervical Spine. The Thoracic Spine. The Lumbar and Sacral Spine. Section Iii: Surgical Procedures: Spinal Decompression and Arthrodesis. Cervical: Upper Cervical and Craniocervical Decompression. Upper Cervical and Occipitocervical Arthrodesis. Ventral and Anterolateral Subaxial Decompression. Single and Multiple Single Interbody Fusion Techniques for Cervical Spine. Interbody Strut Techniques for Subaxial Cervical Spine Fusion. Laminotomy, Laminectomy, Laminoplasty, And Foraminotomy. Interspinous, Laminar, And Facet Cervical Fusion, Spinal Decompression and Arthrodesis. Thoracic and Lumbar: Ventral and Ventrolateral Cervicothoracic, Thoracic, Thoracolumbar, Lumbar, And Lumbosacral Spine Decompression and Fusion. Lateral Extracavitary Decompression and Fusion of the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine. The Retropleural Approach to the Ventral Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Spine. Laminotomy, Laminectomy, Laminoplasty, And Foraminotomy. Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion. Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion. Posterior and Lateral Thoracic and Lumbar Fusion, Discectomy: Cervical Discectomy. Thoracic Discectomy. Lumbar Discectomy. Percutaneous Approaches to Discectomy, Spinal Surgery for Arthritides and Related Disorders: Cervical Spondylosis. Thoracic and Lumbar Spondylosis. Spondylolisthesis. Degenerative Rotary Scoliosis: Coronal Plane Lumbar Spine Deformity Correction. Rheumatoid Arthritis. Ankylosing Spondylitis and Related Disorders. Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament. Scheuermann's Disease, Deformity Reduction: Craniocervical Junction Deformities. Subaxial Cervical Deformity. Thoracic and Lumbar Deformities. Neonatal and Pediatric Spinal Deformities, Tumors, Vascular Malformations and Related Lesions: Intramedullary Spinal Cord Lesions. Extramedullary Intradural Spinal Lesions. Spinal Intradural Vascular Malformations. Spinal Dural Vascular Malformations. Cauda Equina Lesions. Primary Bony Spinal Lesions. Metastatic Spinal Lesions. Paget's Disease. Formamen Magnum Lesions /Sacral Lesions, Pediatric Spinal Surgery and Surgery for Congenital Anolomies: Occult Spinal Dysraphism and the Tethered Spinal Cord. Meningomyelocele and Associated Anomalies. Anterior Sacral Meningocele and Related Lesions. Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia, Adjunctive Management Dilemmas and Complex Surgical Problems: Post-Traumatic Cervical Spine Clearance. Revascularization and Scar Prevention. Spinal Closure. Redo Spine Operations. Penetrating Spinal Trauma. Vacularized Strut Grafts. Pain and Spasticity. Bone Graft Harvest. Timing of Surgery. Minimally Invasive Decompression and Stabilization Techniques. The Obese Patient. Smoking, Bone Healing and Spinal Fusion. The Geriatric Patient. Surgery of the Sympathetic Nervous System. Complications of Peripheral Nerve Surgery Section Iv Spinal Instrumentation. Surgical Technique: Basic Anatomy for Engineers and Mechanics for Surgeons. Spinal Implant Attributes: Distraction, Compression, And Three-Point Bending. Spinal Implant Attributes: Cantilever Beam Fixation. High Cervical Screw Fixation Techniques. High Cervical and Occipitocervical Plate, Rod, Wire and Bone Techniques. Anterior Subaxial Cervical Fixation Techniques . Ventral and Lateral Thoracic Lumbar Fixation Techniques. Dorsal Subaxial Cervical Instrumentation Techniques. Posterior Thoracic and Lumbar. Screw Fixation and Pedicle Fixation Techniques. Posterior Thoracic and Lumbar. Simple Hook-Rod, Wire, And Wire-Rod Techniques. Posterior Thoracic and Lumbar. Universal Spinal Instrumentation Techniques. Posterior Thoracic and Lumbar. Combined and Complex Techniques. Complex Techniques of Lumbosacropelvic Fixation. Cervical Spine Construct Design. Thoracolumbar Construct Design. The Fundamentals of Spine Deformity and Deformity Correction. Section V: Special Topics: Adjuncts to Surgery: Surgical Incisions, Positioning and Retraction. Blood Loss. Preoperative Imaging. Intraoperative Imaging. Stereotaxis for Radiosurgery/ Intraoperative-Evoked Potential Monitoring. Intraoperative Electromyelographic Monitoring. Intraoperative Nonparalytic Monitoring. Anesthesia for Spine Surgery, Non-Surgical Management: Perioperative Management. Critical Care. Nutritional Support. Skin and Wound Care. Adult and Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury. Cervical Traction. Orthoses: Complication Prevention and Management. The Spinally Injured Athlete: the Decision-Making Dilemma. The Nonoperative Management of Neck and Back Pain, Specific Complications. Avoidance and Management: Neurological Complications. Vascular and Soft Tissue Complications. Postoperative Spinal Deformation. Arachnoiditis. Infectious Complications. Medical Complications. Csf Fistula. Nonunion: Prevention and Management, Postscript: Economics and Practice Management. The Nature of Controversy: the Spine Surgeon's Posture. Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion: to Plate or Not. Cervical Spondylosis with Minimal Myelopathy: to Decompressor Not. Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain in the Patient with Degenerative Disease of the Spine: to Fuse or Not. Unstable Thoracic Spine Trauma Requiring Stabilization with a Long Instrumentation Construct: Long Versus Short Fusion. Bilateral Locked Cervical Facets with Incomplete Myelopathy: Open Versus Closed Recution. Spinal Fusion: Allograft Versus Autograft. Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Spine Trauma with a Ventral Mass Lesion and an Incomplete Myelopathy: Ventral Versus Dorsal Operation. Reoperation for Failed Spinal Fusion: Augmentation of Fusion with Spinal Stimulator or Not. Management of a Patient with a Thoracolumbar Fracture with Complete Myelopathy and a 40 Degree Kyphotic Deformity: Operative or Recumbent Management. Ethical and Medicolegal Aspects of Spinal Surgery.