Lumbar spine surgery
Subtitle: indications, techniques, failures, and alternatives
By: edited by Joseph C. Cauthen.
Contributors: Cauthen, Joseph C.
Publisher: Williams & Wilkins
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Intervertebral disk -- Surgery -- Congresses.; Lumbar vertebrae -- Surgery -- Congresses.; Backache -- Surgery -- Congresses.; Intervertebral disk -- Congresses.; Lumbar verterbrae -- Surgery -- Congresses.; Spinal diseases -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
A revision of papers which were originally presented in the Lumbar Spine Surgery Seminar in Gainesville, Fla. in 1980.
Table of contents: title: Lumbar pain / Joseph C. Cauthen; title: Lumbar spondylosis and stenosis / W.H. Kirkaldy-Willis; title: High resolution computed tomography of the lumbar spine / Kenneth B. Heithoff; title: Patient selection for lumbar disc surgery / Bernard E. Finneson; title: Microlumbar discectomy / Robert Warren Williams; title: Neural arch resection / Hubert L. Rosomoff; title: Posterior lumbar interbody fusion / Paul M. Lin; title: The place of spinal fusion in lumbar intervertebral joint disease / Leon L. Wiltse; title: Chemonucleolysis / J. Carl Sutton; title: The diagnosis and treatment of spinal infections / Arthur A. Mauceri; title: The etiology of the "failed back surgery syndrome" / Charles V. Burton; title: How to avoid the "failed back surgery syndrome" / Charles V. Burton.