Emory's Illustrated Tips and Tricks in Spine Surgery

✍ Scribed by John Rhee (editor)

• Publisher: LWW
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 734
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Part of the popular Tips and Tricks series, Emory Spine: Illustrated Tips and Tricks in Spine Surgery provides succinct and practical advice acquired from years of expert practice in spine surgery. Led by John M. Rhee, MD from the Emory University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Emory University Spine Fellowship, this visually stunning reference focuses exclusively on detailed descriptions of technical tips and tricks for all aspects of spine surgery. This unique approach will be highly useful to everyone from orthopaedic and neurosurgery spine fellows and residents, to practicing spinal surgeons – anyone who would benefit from exposure to the wisdom that experienced attending surgeons pass on to those who are training or working in this complex field.

• Presents practical knowledge and insight gleaned from years of experience at Emory University’s renowned spine surgery fellowship program.
• Takes a unique issue/solution approach, offering up-to-date guidance that can be applied in contemporary surgical practice.
• Features concise, bulleted text and hundreds of high-quality illustrations detailing the gamut of spine operations, step by step
• Covers the entire spectrum of surgeries involving the cervical spine, thoracic spine, and lumbar spine (anterior, posterior, and deformity); as well as cervical and thoracolumbar trauma.
• Discusses management of complications such as vertebral artery injury, neuromonitoring alerts, and airway management after ACDF/ cricothyroidotomy.

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✦ Table of Contents

Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contributors
Foreword
Foreword 2
Emory Spine Fellowship Graduates
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Section 1 Cervical Spine
1 Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion
2 Anterior Cervical Corpectomy and Fusion
3 Anterior Cervical Arthroplasty
4 Cervical Laminoplasty
5 Cervical Subaxial Laminectomy, Instrumentation, and Fusion (C3 to Upper Thoracic)
6 Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy
7 C1-2 Instrumentation and Fusion
8 Occipitocervical Fixation and Fusion
9 Cervical Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy
10 Posterior-Anterior-Posterior Treatment of Severe Cervical Kyphotic Deformity
Section 2 Thoracic Spine
11 Anterior Thoracic Corpectomy and Diskectomy
12 Thoracic Direct Lateral Corpectomy
13 Posterior Thoracic Instrumentation/Fusion
14 Percutaneous Thoracic Fusion and Pedicle Screw Instrumentation
15 Costotransversectomy and Lateral Extracavitary Approach
16 Posterior Correction of Scoliosis
17 Vertebral Column Resection
Section 3 Lumbar Spine
18 Microdiskectomy
19 Lumbar Laminectomy
20 Posterior Lumbar Fusion and Pedicle Screw Instrumentation
21 Percutaneous Lumbar Fusion and Pedicle Screw Instrumentation
22 Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion
23 Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion
24 Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
25 Direct Lateral Interbody Fusion: Standard and Anterior Column Realignment
26 Lumbar Corpectomy
27 Iliac and S2 Alar-Iliac Screw Fixation
28 Lumbar Posterior Column Osteotomy and Correction
29 Lumbar Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy
Section 4 Trauma
30 Application of Gardner-Wells Tongs, Mayfield Head Holder, and Halo
31 Operative Treatment of Facet Fractures/Dislocations
32 Odontoid Screw Fixation
33 Operative Treatment of Hangman’s Fractures
34 Operative Treatment of Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures
35 Sacral Fractures
Section 5 Management of Complications
36 Lumbar Subarachnoid Drain
37 Management of Dural Tears
38 Vertebral Artery Injury
39 Neuromonitoring Alert During Spinal Surgery
40 Airway Complications After Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion/Cricothyrotomy
Index