BookBernhard Meyer, Michael Rauschmann, editors.
Summary: This book covers the content of European postgraduate spine surgery courses, using a case-based approach. A step-wise solution to a real clinical problem is described and compared to the best available evidence. A weighted conclusion is provided on how to bridge the gap (if there is one) between standard of care and evidence-based medicine. Spine Surgery: A Case-Based Approach is aimed at postgraduate students of spine surgery (both trainee neurosurgeons and trainee orthopedic surgeons), and may also be of interest to medical students.
Contents:
Part 1: Basics and Conservative Therapy
Psychosomatics/behaviour therapy.-Indications for emergency treatment
Part 2: Surgical treatment of degenerative cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal pathologies
Anterior cervical sub-axial treatment (fusion)
Cervical motion preserving procedures (TDR)
Posterior motion preserving procedures (Frykholm, laminoplasty)
Cervical myelopathy: indication and operative procedure
Thoracic disc herniation and myelopathy
Lumbar disc herniation, nucleo-and sequestrectomy
Lumbar spinal stenosis
Degenerative spondylolisthesis
Slipped vertebra and degenerative lumbar scoliosis
Lumbar non-fusion techniques
Surgical treatment options at the sacroiliac joint
Navigation in cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine
Part 3: Deformity
Diagnosis and conservativetreatment of AIS
Operative treatment of AIS
Congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis
Adult scoliosis and complication management
^Conservative treatment options and indication for surgery in spondylolisthesis
Operative treatment of spondylolisthesis
Parameters of spinopelvic balance, etiology and pathogenesis of disturbed spinopelvic balance
Diagnosis, classification, and general treatment options in hyperkyphosis
Scheuermann Disease and M. Bechterew
Surgical correction and special features in traumatic and congenital kyphotic deformities
Part 4: Spinal fractures
Pre-hospital management, physical examination, polytrauma management
Upper cervical trauma (C0-C2)
Subaxial cervical trauma (C2 - C7)
Management criteria for thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbar fractures
Conservative management of spinal fractures
Sacral fractures
Pediatric spine injuries
Spine injuries in the elderly
Injuries in ankylosed spine condition
Part 5: Tumors of spine and inflammatory diseases
Vertebral osteomyelitis
Rheumatic diseases
Metabolic bone diseases
Primary tumors
^Metastases
Part 6: Intradural pathologies
Vascular malformations: arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)/Cavernoma, spinal dAVFs
Inflammation of spinal cord (myelitis)
Intradural, extramedullary tumors
Intradural, intramedullary tumors
Dysraphia, tethered cord, segmentation disorders
Syringomyelia, sacral cysts
Spinal cord injury
classification and diagnostics
Spinal cord injury
surgical and pharmaceutical therapy
Spontaneous CSF leak and ideopathic spinal cord herniation
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring
Management of intraoperative dural tear
Therapy of chronic pain syndromes (pumps, DCS, DBS, CS)
Part 7: Extended indications and advanced operative techniques
Craniocervical junction
Basilar invagination
Cervicothoracic junction
Kyphosis in ankylosing spondylitis
Thoracic spine
Primary bone tumor
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS)
Lumbar degenerative scoliosis
Adult degenerative scoliosis
^Long vs short contructs
High-grade lumbar spondylolisthesis
Spondyloptosis
Sacrum
Intradural tumors
Oligosymptomatic intramedullary lesion
Part 8: Revisions and complication management
Positioning of the patient and related complications
Postlaminectomy kyphosis
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (epidural scar)
Adjacent segment degeneration
Management of post-op infections
Pseudoarthrosis management (case with implant failure)
Coronal decompensation
Proximal junctional kyphosis
Blood management and thromboprophylaxis in spinal surgery
Management of failure of osteoporotic fixation
Visceral complications of deformity surgery (pulmonary, esophageal injury or chylothorax)
Revision of adult deformity
Iatrogenic neurologic injury
Management of CSF fistula
Management of mechanical failure of cervical spine
Pitfalls of anterior lumbar revision surgery (vasculary or uretheral injury).