Spinal Deformities : The Comprehensive Text

I. Gross Anatomy: Surgical Anatomy of the Sacrum and Pelvis; Surgical Anatomy of the Lumbar Spine; Surgical Anatomy of
the Thoracic Spine; Surgical Anatomy of the Cervical Spine; Muscles and Ligaments.
II. Microanatomy: Development and Maturation of the Spine and Spinal Cord; Microscopic Anatomy of Bone; Macro and
Microscopic Anatomy of the Disc and Endplate; Nervous System and Muscle.
III. Physiology: Physiology of Bone; Nerve and Muscle Physiology; Pulmonary and Chest Cage Physiology;
Electrophysiology; Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) Physiology.
IV. Biomechanics: Biomechanics; Biomechanics of the
Intervertebral Disc; Spine Testing Modalities.
V. Pharmacology: Antibiotic Therapy in Spine Surgery;
Osteoporosis: Evaluation and Pharmacologic Treatment;
Pharmacologic Agents that Minimize Perioperative Blood Loss...;
Common Medications in Spinal Afflictions.
VI. Pathology: Pathophysiology of Lumbar Degenerative Disc
Disease; Spinal Inflammatory Arthritides; Spinal
Neuroarthropathy (Charcot's Spine); Pyogenic Vertebral
Infection; Coagulation Disorders in Spine Surgery; Blood
Conservation Strategies in Spine Surgery; Management of
Metastatic Disease to the Spine.
VII. Clinical Evaluation: Evaluation of the Patient with
Congenital Spine Deformity; Clinical Evaluation of the Patient
with a Spine Deformity; Clinical Evaluation for Neuromuscular
Scoliosis and Kyphosis; Evaluation of Back Pain in the Spinal
Deformity Patient.
VIII. Neurology: Spinal Cord Injury, Reflexes, and Syndromes;
Anterior Horn Cell Disease: Poliomyelitis, Spinal Muscular;
Congenital and Developmental Spinal Cord Abnormalities; The
Spine in Friedrich's Ataxia, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease;
Cerebral Palsy, Myelodysplasia, Hydrosyringomyelia, Rett...
IX. Anesthesia: Anesthetic Considerations for Spinal Surgery.
X. Radiology: Radiology.
XI. Rehabilitation: Rehabilitation.
XII. Treatment of the Adult Spine: Degenerative Lumbar Stenosis;
Degenerative Disc Disease and Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
of...; Adult Spine Trauma; Inflammatory Arthritis of the Spine;
Vertebral Osteomyelitis; Neoplasms of the Spine.
XIII. Surgical Techniques: Tables and Positioning; Halo and
Cranial Traction; Approaches to the Cervical Spine; Open
Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Surgical Approaches; Cervical
Decompression; Decompression for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis; Spine
Fusion; Spine Osteotomy and Resection; Staging Plus
Complications of Approaches; Thoracoplasty; Endoscopic and Mini-
Open Approaches to the Spine.
XIV. Instrumentation and Complications: Basic Principles of
Deformity Correction; A Biomechanical Approach to Posterior
Spinal Instrumentation; Sacropelvic Fixation in Spinal
Deformity; Neurological Injury Complicating Surgery;
Postoperative Complications; Revision Surgery.
XV. Pediatric Spine: Etiology of Scoliosis; Idiopathic
Scoliosis: Prevalence and Natural History; Congenital Scoliosis
and Kyphosis; Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders of the
Child's Spine; The Spine in Skeletal Syndromes and Dysplasias;
Neuromuscular Scoliosis; Pediatric Spine Trauma; Spine Tumors in
Childhood and Adolescence.
XVI. Deformities: Idiopathic Scoliosis: General Considerations,
Natural History and...; Bracing in Scoliosis; Spinal Deformities
Associated with Metabolic Diseases; Perioperative Blood and
Blood Product Management for Spinal...; Scheurmann Kyphosis;
Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis; Intraoperative and
Immediate Postoperative Complications.