Surgical management of spinal cord injury
Subtitle: controversies and consensus
By: edited by Arun Paul Amar.
Contributors: Amar, Arun Paul.
Publisher: Blackwell Futura
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, Mass; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781405122061
Subjects: Spinal cord -- Surgery; Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries; Spinal Cord Injuries; Spinal Cord Injuries -- surgery
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pathogenesis of acute spinal cord injury and theoretical bases of neurological recovery / Arun Paul Amar; title: Pharmacotherapy for spinal cord injury / Steven Casha, Joseph Silvaggio, R. John Hurlbert; title: Prehospital and emergency department management of spinal cord injury / Stuart P. Swadron, Danny L. Chang, Brian Wilbur; title: Radiographic workup of spinal cord injury / Nestor R. Gonzalez, Larry T. Khoo, Richard G. Fessler; title: Controversies in surgical decompression : timing of decompressive surgery of the spinal cord / Mark S. Gerber, Volker K.H. Sonntag; title: Biomechanics of spinal column failure / Eric P. Roger, G. Alexander Jones, Edward C. Benzel; title: Principles of spine stabilization / G. Alexander Jones, Eric P. Roger, Edward C. Benzel; title: Controversies in the management of cervical spinal cord injury / Paul G. Matz, Mark N. Hadley; title: Surgical decision-making in spinal fracture dislocations / Robert G. Watkins; title: Spinal cord injury in pediatric patients / Philipp R. Aldana, Douglas L. Brockmeyer; title: Management of penetrating spinal cord injury / K. Anthony Kim, Arun Paul Amar, Michael L. Levy; title: Traumatic vascular injury to the cervical spine / Michael L. DiLuna, Arun Paul Amar; title: Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring during spinal surgery / Indro Chakrabarti, Jerry Larson, Gordon L. Engler, Steven L. Giannotta; title: Surgery after the acute phase of traumatic spinal cord injury / Michael Y. Wang, Barth A. Green.