Decision Making in Spinal Care

Updated and expanded to reflect current management strategies and new technologies, Decision Making in Spinal Care, Second Edition provides readers with focused guidance to every major topic in spine, with an emphasis on clinical decision making. Covering the most common spine problems, this new edition covers the spectrum of diagnoses seen in a typical spinal practice, from trauma injuries to metabolic and degenerative diseases to spinal deformities. Highlights of the Second Edition: Focuses on must-know information that significantly impacts clinical decisionsI.

66 Spinal Imaging for Pseudarthrosis.

Decision Making in Spinal Care; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Contributors; I Cervical Trauma; 1 Occipito-Atlantal Injuries; 2 C1 Ring Fractures; 3 Atlanto-Axial Instability; 4 Odontoid Fractures; 5 Traumatic Spondylolisthesis of the Axis (Hangman's Fracture); 6 Flexion-Compression Injuries of the Cervical Spine; 7 Cervical Distraction-Extension Injuries; 8 Cervical Facet Dislocations; 9 Cervicothoracic Fractures and Dislocations; 10 Facet Fractures; II Thoracolumbar Trauma; 11 Thoracic and Lumbar Vertebral Compression Fractures; 12 Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures.

13 Thoracolumbar Flexion-Distraction Injuries14 Thoracolumbar Fracture Dislocations; 15 Sacral Fractures; 16 Thoracolumbar Distraction-Extension Injuries; III Cervical Degenerative/Metabolic Disease; 17 Cervical Disk Degeneration; 18 Cervical Radiculopathy; 19 Cervical Myelopathy: Anterior Approach; 20 Cervical Myelopathy: Posterior Approach; 21 Cervical Kyphosis; 22 Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament; 23 Cervical Whiplash; 24 Cervical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Injections and Procedures; IV Thoracic Degenerative/Metabolic Disease; 25 Ankylosing Spondylitis.

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