Instructional Course Lectures: Spine

Section 1 Degenerative Cervical Disorders
1 Neck Pain,Cervical Radiculopathy,and Cervical
Myelopathy:Pathophysiology,Naturla History,and Clinical
Evaluation
2 Evaluation of Neck Pain,Rediculopathy, and Myelopathy:
Imaging, Conservative Treatemt, and Surgical Indications
3 Anterior Cervical Approaches for Cervical Rediculopathy and
Myelopathy
4 Co,plications of Anterior cervical Spain Surgery
5 Posterior Decompressive Procedures for the Cervical Spine
6 Microsurgery for Degenerative Conditions of the Cervical Spine

Section 2 Herniated Lumber Disk
7 indications for Lumber Microdiskectomy
8 Lumber Microdiskectomy:Microsuigical Technique for Treatment
of Lumber Herniated Nucleus Pulposus
9 Microsurgery in the Lumber Intertransverse Interval
10 Advantages of the Operating Microscope in Lumber Spine
Surgery

Section 3 Lumber Spinal Stenosis
11 Spinal Stenosis
12 Radiologic Imaging in Spinal Stenosis
13 Lumbar Spinal Stenoiss: Treatment Options
14 Microsurgical Techques in Lumbar Spianl Stenosis

Section 4 Pediatric Spine
15 Congenital Spinal Deformity
16 Acute Back Pain in Children

Section 5 Spondyloisthesis
17 Low-Grade lsthmic/Lytic Spondylolisthesis in Adults
18 Evaluation and Surgical Treatment of High-Grade Lsthmic
Dysplastic Spondylolisthesis

Section 6 Adult Spinal Deformities
19 Anterior and Posterior Spinal Surgery:Same-Day,
Staged,Anterior First, Posterior First, or Simultaneous?
20 Where to Stop the Fusion Distally in Adult
Scoliossis :L4,L5, or the Sacrum?
21 Load Sharing Principles: The Role and Use of Anterior
Stuctural Support in Adult Deformity

Section 7 Cervical Spine Trauma
22 The Management of Acute Apinal Trauma: Prehospital and In-
Hospital Emergency Care
23 Treatment of Aculte Injury fo the Cervical Spine

Section 8 Thoracolumbar Spine Trauma
24 Introduction to Thoracolumbar Fractures
25 Thoracolumbar Trauma Imaging Overview
26 Nonsurgical Treatment of Thoracic and Lumber Fractures
27 Clasification of Thoracolumbar Fractures and Posterior
Instrumentation for Treatment of Thoracolumbar Fractures
28 Combined Anterior and Posterior Surgery for Fractures of the
Thoracolumbar Spine

Section 9 Osteoporotic Spine
29 The Structural Properties fo Normal and Osteoporotic Bone
30 Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures
31 Medical Consequences of Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression
Fractures
32 Minimally Invasive Treatments of Osteoporotic Vertebral
Compression Fractures :Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty
33 Open Surgical Treatment of Osteoprotic Fractures and
Deformity of the Spine
34 AdultSpinal Deformity in the Osteoporotic Spine: Options and
Pitfalls

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