Orthopaedics

Complex Spine Cases: A Collection of Current Techniques

Posted on November 6, 2015September 2, 2018 by admin

by Vaccaro Alexander Richard, Gupta Munish C, Gupta Sachin

This book ‘Complex Spine Cases: A Collection of Current Techniques’ focuses on pediatric and adult spinal deformity surgery and complex surgical problems. This book covers a nice gamut of thoracic, cervical and lumbar pathologies and both pediatric and adult complex deformity surgical problems. It also uses a case report format to illustrate the challenges, pitfalls, pearls and techniques encountered in the management of complex spinal disorders. This book comprises of five sections. They are early onset scoliosis, pediatric spinal deformity, adult spinal deformity, trauma and tumors and cervical spine. The first section early onset scoliosis discusses about the congenital scoliosis, severe scoliosis, and progressive congenital kyphoscoliosis and about its treatment procedures. The second section and the third section discuss about pediatric spinal deformity and adult spinal deformity which also describes about the different techniques used to correct the deformities. The fourth section explains about fracture dislocation, complex post-traumatic kyphosis, and traumatic spinal injury, complex reconstruction of the metastatic spine disease, posterior-only resection and instrumentation for a tumor. The last section discusses about different cervical spinal deformities and its treatment with respective techniques.