Prove it!
Subtitle: evidence-based analysis of common spine practice
By: [edited by] Christopher M. Bono, Charles G. Fisher
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781605470276
Subjects: Methods; Spine; Evidence-based medicine; Case studies; Therapy; Diagnosis; Spinal Diseases; Case Reports; Surgery; Evidence-Based Medicine
Other titles: Evidence-based analysis of common spine practice
Description: "Prove It! Evidence-Based Analysis of Common Spine Practice offers spine surgeons detailed guidance in using the principles of evidence-based medicine in treatment decisions. The book presents a unique collection of 31 case studies in which noted experts review a patient's signs and symptoms and relevant images to determine the best-fitting diagnosis and then to develop a treatment plan based on the best available published evidence. The case-based approach allows the reader to see how evidence-based medicine can be directly and practically applied to the care of patients with a variety of  disorders"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: SECTION I Degenerative Cervical Spine; title: Case 1 Cervical Stenosis With Multiple Subluxations / Harry N. Herkowitz; title: Case 2 Multilevel Cervical Stenosis with Straight Spine / Kevin J. McGuire; title: Case 3 Cervical Disc Disease with Radiculopathy / John M. Rhee; title: Case 4 Cervical Degeneration with C8 Radiculopathy / David H. Kim; title: Case 5 Two-Level Degeneration and Radiculopathy / Andrew P. White; title: Case 6 Cervical Stenosis With Kyphosis / Brian Lenehan; title: SECTION II Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders; title: Case 7 Discitis and Osteomyelitis / Christopher Hume; title: Case 8 Rheumatoid Arthritis of the Cervical Spine / Marcel F. Dvorak; title: Case 9 Cervical Epidural Abscess / Steven R. Garfin; title: SECTION III Spinal Tumors and Fractures; title: Case 10 Metastatic Prostate Tumor with Fracture At L3 / Mark H. Bilsky; title: Case 11 Thoracic Epidural Tumor / Ning Lin; title: Case 12 L1 Fracture With Paraplegia / Alexander Vaccaro; title: Case 13 C4 Fracture / John C. France; title: Case 14 Metastatic Renal Tumor of L4 After Failed Kyphoplasty / Daryl R. Fourney; title: Case 15 Thoracolumbar Flexion-Distraction Injury / Charles G. Fisher; title: Case 16 Metastatic Tumor of the Cervical Spine / Joseph H. Schwab; title: Case 17 Thoracolumbar Burst Fracture / Christopher S. Bailey; title: SECTION IV Degenerative Lumbar Spine; title: Case 18 Single-Level Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis with Stenosis I / Mitchel B. Harris; title: Case 19 Single-Level Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis with Stenosis II / Eugene Carragee; title: Case 20 Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis with Multilevel Stenosis I / Michael J. Vives; title: Case 21 Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis with Multilevel Stenosis II / John R. Dimar II; title: Case 22 L5-S1 Slip and Herniation / William C. Watters III; title: Case 23 L5-S1 Herniation / Andrew J. Schoenfeld; title: Case 24 Isthmic Spondylolisthesis / Paul M. Arnold; title: Case 25 Two-Level Degenerative Slip With Stenosis / Oma Persaud; title: Case 26 Low Back Pain with Degenerative Disc Disease / Daniel K. Resnick; title: Case 27 Recurrent Disc Herniation / Alok D. Sharan; title: SECTION V Thoracolumbar Deformity; title: Case 28 Multilevel Degeneration with Back and Leg Pain / Eeric Truumees; title: Case 29 Thoracic Stenosis / James S. Harrop; title: Case 30 Adult Scoliosis I / Kirkham B. Wood; title: Case 31 Adult Scoliosis II / Leah Y. Carreon.