Surgical Techniques for the Spine

Section I. The Cervical Spine

1. Occipitocervical Junction: Decompression and Fusion(O'Brien)
2. Anterior Odontoid Resection(Bouramas/Crockard)
3. Odontoid Fixation(Montesano/Neubuerger)
4. C1-C2 Fusion (Posterior Screw Fixation)(Grob)
5. Far Lateral Approach to the Cervical Spine(DeWald)
6. Anterior Cervical Corpectomy(Truumees/Herkowitz)
7. Multiple Levels Cervical Vertebrectomy (Corpectomy) and
Stabilization... (Whitecloud/Mitchell)
8. Cervical Laminoplasty(Ueyama/Chen/Harata)
9. Posterior Cervical Laminectomy and Fusion(Elliott/Dwyer)
10. Open Door Laminoplasty for the Treatment of Cervical
Spondylolytic...(Riina/Schwartz)
11. Posterior Wiring Technique of the Spine(Vaccaro/Singh)
12. Posterior Cervical Plating Techniques(Wise/An)
13. Anterior Cervical Disc Surgery: Technical Challenges(Dillin)
14. Revision Disc Surgery: Technical Challenges(Dillin)
15. Cervical Thoracic Fixation Techniques(Peris/W. Donaldson)


Section II. The Thoracic Spine

16. Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty in the Treatment of
Osteoporatic...(Sagi/Yuan)
17. Thoracic Pedicle Screws: Pedicular Approach(von Strempel)
18. Extrapedicular Screw Placement in the Thoracic Spine(Metz-
Stavenhagen/Morgenstern)
19. Thoracic Disc Disease: Retropleural Approach(Gorup/D.
Donaldson)
20. Vertebral Corpectomy for Thoracic Tumor or Infection
(McLain/Kuzhupilly)
21. Posterior Techniques for Thoracic Disc Disorders(Murali)
22. Posterior Column Shortening for Scheuermann's Kyphosis: An
Innovative... [Ponte)
23. Anterior Release and Posterior Instrumentation and Fusion
for...(Lowe)
24. A New Classification System of Adolescent Idiopathic
Scoliosis(Lenke)
25. Anterior Correction and Instrumentation for Thoracic
Scoliosis(Haher/Merola)
26. Concave Thoracoplasty for Stiff Thoracic Scoliosis(Metz-
Stavenhagen/Morgenstern)
27. Convex Thoracoplasty(Betz/Steel)
28. Anterior Thoracoplasty(Shufflebarger)
29. Anterior Correction of Thoracic Scoliosis Using KASS
(Kaneda/Shono)
30. Posterior Scoliosis Correction of King II Curves: Hooks and
Rods(Lenke)
31. Posterior Scoliosis Correction: Double Major Curves(Bridwell)
32. Posterior Scoliosis Correction: King Type V/Double Thoracic
Curves(Bridwell)
33. Posterior Scoliosis Correction: Pedicle Screws(Suk/Kim)
34. Anterior Thoracoscopic Release for Spinal Deformity
(Weidenbaum/Djurasovic)
35. The Accordion Procedure for Management of Rigid Thoracic
Scoliosis(Shook/Burnham)
36. Correction of Neuromuscular Pelvic Obliquity: Domino
Technique(Lonner)
37. Thoracic Vertebrectomy for Congenital Deformity(Ogilvie)
38. Prevention and Treatment of the Crankshaft Phenomenon
(Lubicky)
39. Thoracic Scoliosis: Vertebral Resection(Wood)
40. Technique of Sublaminar Wire Passage(Devlin/Asher)


Section III. The Lumbar Spine

41. Hook Patterns for the Preservation of Lumbar Lordosis
(Dryer/Cheung/Engler)
42. Apical Over-Correction and Lordosis Reconstruction of
Thoraco-Lumbar... (Margulies/Karlin/Asher)
43. Microdiskectomy(Spencer/Bernstein)
44. Far Lateral Discectomy(Von Rueden/Flawn)
45. Enbloc ("Trap Door") Laminectomy of the Lumbar Spine
(Bernstein/Spencer)
46. Lumbar Pedicle Fixation(Devlin/Asher)
47. Lumbar Corpectomy(Connolly)
48. Smith-Peterson Type Osteotomy(Devlin)
49. Osteotomy for Ankylosing Spondylitis(Simmons)
50. Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy(Brown/Wong)
51. Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion(Dwyer/Elliott)
52. Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion(Polly/Harms)
53. Total Lumbar Disc Replacement: Using the SB III Charite
Prosthesis(Bitan/Neuwirth/Bloom)
54. Anterior and Posterior Decompression and Stabilization in
Patients With... (Shannon/Boland)
55. Spondylolysis Repair: Modified Scott Wire Technique
(Hammerberg/Osborn)
56. Decompression for Lumbar Fractures: Posterior(Akbarnia)
57. Anterior Threaded Cage Revision Surgery(Shin/Banco)
58. Reduction of Spondylolisthesis With Pedicle Screw Fixation
and... (St. John/Albert)
59. Coccygecto