Spinal trauma
Subtitle: imaging, diagnosis, and management
By: [edited by] Eric D. Schwartz, Adam E. Flanders.
Contributors: Schwartz, Eric D.; Flanders, Adam E.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780781762489; 9780781762489
Subjects: Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries; Spinal Cord Injuries -- diagnosis; Diagnostic Imaging -- methods; Spinal Cord Injuries -- therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pathophysiology of spinal cord injury / B. Timothy Himes; title: The neurological evaluation and medical management of acute spinal cord injury / Anthony S. Burns and Ralph J. Marino; title: Surgical treatment of spinal injury / Daniel R. Fassett and James S. Harrop; title: Controversies in clearing the spine / C. Craig Blackmore and Ken F. Linnau; title: Plain film radiography and computed tomography of the cervical spine. Part I. Normal anatomy and spinal injury identification / Alejandro Zuluaga Santamaria and Diego B. Núñez, Jr.; title: Plain film radiography and computed tomography of the cervical spine. Part II. Classification and subtypes of spinal injury / Alejandro Zuluaga Santamaria and Diego B. Núñez, Jr.; title: Imaging of thoracolumbar spinal injury / George Koulouris, Amy Y.I. Ting, and William B. Morrison; title: Magnetic resonance imaging of acute spinal trauma / Adam E. Flanders; title: Imaging of pediatric spinal trauma / Avrum N. Pollock and Stephen M. Henesch; title: Postoperative spinal imaging / Ashwini D. Sharan, Hana Choe, and Laura Snyder; title: Imaging of the previously injured spinal cord / Steven Falcone; title: Experimental therapies for spinal cord injury / Marion Murray; title: Experimental techniques of spinal imaging / Eric D. Schwartz.