Unique in the field, Comparative Management of Spine Pathology presents commonly encountered spinal cases with side-by-side, case-by-case comparisons that clearly show how various experts would handle the same case. This second volume in the Neurosurgery: Case Management Comparison Series offers multiple opinions from international experts in both neurosurgery and orthopaedics, each of whom explains their preferred approach and management style for the same case. This format allows for quick and helpful comparisons of different ways to approach a lesion, advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and what each expert is looking for in how they would manage a particular case.
Offers 4 expert opinions on each case in a templated format designed to help you quickly make side-by-side comparisons—an ideal learning tool for both trainee and practicing neurosurgeons and orthopaedic surgeons for board review and case preparation
Helps you easily grasp different approaches to spine management with different expert approaches to the same case and summaries from the editors on the advantages and disadvantages to each approach
Features a wide variety of management decisions, from preoperative studies to surgical approach, surgical adjuncts, and postoperative care, from experts in the field who specialize in different aspects of spine surgery
Presents 70 cases in the areas of degenerative spine, traumatic spine, spinal deformity, spinal oncology, and miscellaneous topics such as epidural abscess, osteomyelitis, and post-instrumentation infection
Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text and figures from the book on a variety of devices
1. Grade 1 spondylolisthesis without instability on flexion/extension and claudication 2. Grade 1 spondy with back pain only 3. Recurrent herniated disc at the same level in a young patient 4. Adjacent Segment Disease after Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion 5. Second herniated disc (same level) in a young patient 6. Recurrent Stenosis after Laminectomy 7. Multilevel cervical stenosis from ossified posterior longitudinal ligaments 8. Thoracic Disc Herniation 9. Cervical Spondylotic Radiculopathy and Myelopathy from Facet and Uncovertebral Hypertrophy 10. One level cervical radiculopathy from a herniated disc 11. Lumbar pseudoarthrosis 12. Anterior C1-C2 pannus 13. High lumbar stenosis (thoracolumbar junction) 14. Cervical stenosis with preservation of lordosis 15. Single level disc disease with back pain 16. Radiculopathy from foraminal stenosis ( 17. Thoracic ligamentous hypertrophy causing stenosis 18. C1-C2 Facet Arthropathy 19. Migrated interbody 20. Cervical myelopathy 21. Failed Back Surgery Syndrome 22. Osteoporotic compression fracture 23. Hangman’s Fracture 24. Compression fracture with back pain 25. Burst fracture without PLC injury 26. Fracture after kyphoplasty
Section 2. Traumatic Spine 27. Pure Bone Thoracolumbar Chance Fracture 28. Central cord syndrome without instability 29. Penetrating Spine Trauma 30. C1 Fracture 31. Acute Spinal Cord Injury 32. Chronic L5 pars fractures with back pain and spondylolisthesis 33. Cervical jumped facets 34. Proximal Junctional Kyphosis after Deformity Surgery 35. Coronal Deformity 36. Coronal and sagittal deformity with back pain (adult idiopathic) 37. Adolescent idiopathic deformity 38. Flat back after fusion
Section 3. Spinal Deformity 39. Cervical kyphosis 40. Degenerative scoliosis with radiculopathy 41. Iatrogenic deformity after Harrington rod 42. Iatrogenic kyphoscoliosis 43. Broken rod after scoliosis correction with back pain 44. Spine metastasis 45. Diffuse Mets to Spine with Lumbar Stenosis 46. Spinal Chondrosarcoma 47. Intradural Extramedullary Tumor 48. Spinal Metastasis w/ kyphotic deformity 49. Multiple Spine Metastasis with One Level Symptomatic
Section 4. Spinal Oncology 50. Gordon Deen 51. Thoracic Spine Metastasis with Acute Myelopathy 52. Thoracic intramedullary lesions 53. Thoracolumbar Intradural Lesion 54. Cervico-Medullary Junction Lesion 55. Metastatic Lesion to the Cervico-Thoracic Junction 56. GBM 57. Foramen Magnum Meningioma 58. Thoracic Intradural Extramedullary Lesion 59. Cervical chordoma 60. Sacral chordoma 61. Spontaneous CSF Leak 62. Lumbar Osteomyelitis and Diskitis 63. Adult Basilar Invagination 64. Spinal Type I AVF 65. Cavernous Malformation 66. Spinal hemangioblastoma 67. Chiari malformation
Section 5. Other 68. Chiari Malformation with Recurrent Symptoms 69. Tethered cord 70. Chronic Adhesive Arachnoiditis with Spinal Cord Dysfunction
Kaisorn Chaichana, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology, and Otolaryngology, Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA and Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD, FAANS, FACS, Professor, Chair of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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