Challenging cases in spine surgery
By: Muwaffak Abdulhak, Shaden Marzouk.
Contributors: Marzouk, Shaden.
Publisher: Thieme
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Spine -- Surgery; Spine -- Surgery -- Miscellanea; Spinal Diseases -- surgery -- Case Reports; Neurosurgical Procedures -- methods -- Case Reports
Genres: Miscellanea.; Case Reports.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Odontoid fracture type I; title: Transodontoid screw for type II odontoid fracture; title: Nonunion of a type II odontoid fracture; title: Atlantoaxial instability; title: Bilateral locked facets; title: Cervical kyphosis; title: Spinal trauma; title: Ankylosing spondylitis; title: Esophageal injury; title: Traumatic thoracic fracture; title: Lumbar fracture; title: Burst fracture; title: Traumatic lumbar fracture; title: Multiple burst fractures; title: Sacral fracture / Rahul Vaidya and Marilyn Gates; title: Atlanto-occipital dislocation / Eric Spickler; title: Cranial settling; title: Rheumatoid arthritis; title: Rheumatoid patient with ventral cord compression; title: Rheumatoid arthritis with instability; title: Percutaneous cervical decompression; title: Cervical cages; title: Mechanical neck pain; title: Multilevel anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF); title: Hardware failure; title: Postoperative kyphosis; title: Multilevel cervical stenosis; title: Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL); title: Cervical myelopathy; title: Cervical hardware failure; title: Central cord with osteoporosis; title: Pseudomeningocele; title: Angioedema; title: Thoracic disc; title: Syrinx; title: Transverse myelitis; title: Discogenic back pain; title: Adjacent segment disease; title: Motion preservation technology; title: Percutaneous lumbar laminotomies and foraminotomies; title: Large disc herniation treated percutaneously; title: Segmental instability; title: Lumbar instability and radiculopathy; title: Foot drop; title: Pars defect; title: High-grade spondylolisthesis; title: Multilevel posterior lumbar interbody fusion; title: Bone morphogenetic protein; title: Degenerative scoliosis; title: Nerve root impingement by pedicle screw; title: Lumbar scoliosis; title: Degenerative lumbar spine disease with segmental instability; title: Lumbar nonunion; title: Mechanical back with previous posterior fusion; title: Osteoporosis; title: Metastatic lesion; title: Plasmacytoma with postembolization swelling; title: Thoracic tumor; title: Thoracolumbar instrumentation failure; title: Thoracic screw misplacement; title: Recurrent giant cell tumor; title: Lumbosacral giant cell tumor with segmental instability; title: Large upper cervical nerve sheath tumor; title: Benign thoracic tumor; title: Spinal tumor; title: Lumbar schwannoma; title: Metastatic spinal cord lesion; title: Sacral lesion; title: Recurrent sacral tumor; title: Spinal epidural abscess; title: Thoracic osteomyelitis; title: Pott's disease; title: Intramedullary cervical lesion; title: Klippel-Feil; title: Klippel-Feil Syndrome; title: Cervical rib; title: Ankylosing hyperostosis of Forestier and Rotes-Querol; title: Fibrous dysplasia; title: Diastematomyelia; title: Spinal teratoma; title: Congenital abnormality of the spine; title: Thoracic arteriovenous fistula; title: Arachnoid cyst; title: Achondroplasia; title: Arachnoiditis; title: Spinal deformity; title: Tethered cord.