BookEdgar N. Weaver, Jr ; with James B. Macon, Lydia Prokosch.
Summary: The learning curve in the management of painful degenerative lumbar spine patients is steep because every case has singular characteristics. Surgical Care of the Painful Degenerative Lumbar Spine: Evaluation, Decision-Making, Techniques by Edgar Weaver reflects more than 35 years of neurosurgical practice devoted to refining degenerative spine disease evaluation and techniques. The book emphasizes and instructs a symptom-focused approach in the surgical decision-making process, with determinant radiographic features used mainly supportively. The text begins with a thorough overview of anatomy,
Contents:
Symptom-focused care of the PDLS
Fundamental anatomy
Spino-pelvic parameters and sagittal balance
Stabilization in SFC surgery on the PDLS
Clinical evaluation of the patient with a PDLS
The fundamental open surgical method
Lateral intramuscular planar [Limp] approach for instrumentation/stabilization L3 to sacrum
Minimally invasive surgical method
Post-operative care
Surgical situations of complex decision-making
Socio-economics in spine surgery.