Bookguest editors: Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, Rishi M. Kanna, Giuseppe Barbagallo.
Contents:
Epidemiology, microbiology, and pathology of spinal infections / Abdulrazzaq Alobaid and Abdulaziz Al-Mutair
Risk stratification and prevention of postoperative spinal infections / Hideyuki Arima, Leah Y. Carreon, and Steven D. Glassman
Imaging in spinal infections / Anupama Maheswaran and Alberto Zerbi
Instrumentation and spinal infections / Hisam Muhamad Ariffin, Yoshiharu Kawaguchi and ChungChek Wong
Pyogenic spondylodiskitis : pathogenesis and clinical features / Mauro Antonio Fernandes, Luiz Roberto Vialle, and Phelipe de Souza Menegaz
Pyogenic spondylodiskitis : diagnosis and management / Joost P.H.J. Rutges, Diederik Hendrik Ruth Kempen, and F. Cumhur Oner
Spinal epidural abscess / Frank Kandziora, Klaus John Schnake, and Christoph-H. Hoffmann
Spinal tuberculosis : pathogenesis, clinical features, and investigations / Rishi M. Kanna, Ajoy Prasad Shetty, and S. Rajasekaran
Drug therapy for spinal tuberculosis / Mathew Varghese
Surgical management of spinal tuberculosis / Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Rishi M. Kanna, and S. Rajasekaran
Pediatric spinal infections / S. Rajasekaran, Rishi M. Kanna, and Ajoy Prasad Shetty
Infectious lesions in the craniovertebral junction (suboccipital region) / Alexsander Yu Mushkin and Alexander V. Gubin
Minimally invasive surgery in spinal infections / Moritz Perrech and Roger Hartl
Human immunodeficiency virus and spinal infections / Robert Dunn
Postoperative spondylodiskitis / Mayan Lendner, Jeffrey Green, Kris E. Radcliff, Joseph S. Butler, Hamadi Murphy, and Alexander R. Vaccaro
Postoperative peri-implant infections / Claudio Lamartina, Alex Vesnaver, and Carlotta Martini
Spinal infections in geriatric patients / Yoshiharu Kawaguchi
Spinal infections and pseudoarthrosis / Sigurd Berven.
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