Spine surgery techniques, complication avoidance and management

This best-selling resource explores the full spectrum of surgical techniques used in spine surgery, and describes how to avoid and manage complex problems. It emphasizes how to achieve successful outcomes and minimize risks. The 2nd Edition delivers more than 25 brand-new chapters, as well as extens...

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Other Authors: Benzel, Edward C. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. Elsevier Churchill Livingstone 2005
Edition:Second edition
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Summary:This best-selling resource explores the full spectrum of surgical techniques used in spine surgery, and describes how to avoid and manage complex problems. It emphasizes how to achieve successful outcomes and minimize risks. The 2nd Edition delivers more than 25 brand-new chapters, as well as extensive revisions and updates throughout, to reflect all of the latest advances in the field. It also features contributions from an increased number of orthopaedic surgeons to round out the strong coverage provided by the many neurosurgeon contributors. Features contributions from well-known neurosurgeons and orthopaedic surgeons, for well-rounded, authoritative coverage from beginning to end. Offers more than 825 outstanding illustrations that demonstrate how to perform every procedure step by step. Provides more than 25 brand-new chapters, as well as extensive revisions or total rewrites to the majority of existing chapters-to present all of the most up-to-date information available on every aspect of spine surgery. Includes chapters on hot topics such as Nonspinal Pathology Masquerading as Spinal Disease • Bone Void Fillers: Bone and Bone Substitutes • Data Management • Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion • Ankylosing Spondylitis and Related Disorders • Craniocervical Junction Deformities • Pediatric Spinal Deformities • Subsidence and Dynamic Spinal Stabilization • and The Nonoperative Management of Neck and Back Pain
Physical Description:2 volume (xxx, 2205, xxxi pages) illustrations, portraits 29 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780443066160
0443066167
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