Description:
For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of
health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Spine Secrets Plus,
3rd Edition, by Dr. Vincent J. Devlin, features the Secrets' popular question-and-answer format that also includes
lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style - making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy,
and enjoyable.
Key Features
highly effective.
increasingly dictate best practices.
images and illustrations to provide an overall enhanced learning experience.
technologies, as well as changing treatment options and drug information.
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and on exams.
providing a concise overview of important, board-relevant content.
and references from the book on a variety of devices.
I. Regional Spinal Anatomy
1. Clinically relevant anatomy of the cervical region
2. Clinically relevant anatomy of the thoracic region
3. Clinically relevant anatomy of the lumbar and sacral region
II. Clinical Evaluation of the Spine Patient
4. Evaluation of cervical spine disorders
5. Evaluation of thoracic and lumbar spine disorders
6. Evaluation of spinal deformities
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7. Evaluation of impairment, disabilty, and workers’ compensation
III. Spinal Imaging
8. Strategies for imaging and diagnosis in spinal disorders
9. Radiographic assessment of the spine
10. Magnetic resonance imaging of the spine
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11. Computed tomography and CT-myelography
12. Nuclear imaging and spinal disorders
IV. Nonsurgical Management of Spinal Disorders
13. Cervical spinal disorders: Nonsurgical management strategies
14. Thoracic and lumbar spinal disorders: Nonsurgical management strategies
15. Pharmacologic management of pain in spine disorders
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16. Diagnostic and therapeutic spinal injections
17. Electrodiagnosis in spinal disorders
18. Spinal orthoses
V. Surgical Indications and Perioperative Management of the Spine Patient
19. Indications for surgical intervention in spinal disorders and when not to operate
20. Preoperative assessment and planning for patients undergoing spine surgery
21. Anesthetic considerations and intraoperative management during spine surgery
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22. Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring during spinal procedures
23. Postoperative management and adverse events after spine surgery
VI. Basic Spinal Procedures, Surgical Approaches, and Spinal Instrumentation
24. Procedures for decompression of the spinal cord and nerve roots
25. Spinal arthrodesis, graft materials, and graft techniques
26. Surgical approaches to the occiput and cervical spine
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27. Surgical approaches to the thoracic, lumbar, and lumbosacral spine
28. Occipital and cervical spine instrumentation
29. Thoracic and lumbar spine instrumentation
30. Instrumentation and fusion at the lumbosacral junction and pelvis
31. Minimally invasive spine surgery
32. Artificial disc replacement
33. Revision spine surgery
34. Spinal cord stimulation and implantable drug delivery systems
VII. Pediatric Spinal Deformities and Spinal Disorders
35. Pediatric back pain
36. Pediatric cervical disorders
37. Early-onset scoliosis
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38. Idiopathic scoliosis
39. Congenital spinal deformities
40. Neuromuscular spinal deformities
41. Sagittal plane deformities in pediatric patients
42. Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis in pediatric patients
43. Pediatric spinal trauma
VIII. Degenerative Disorders of the Adult Spine
44. Pathophysiology and pathoanatomy of degenerative disorders of the adult spine
45. Cervical degenerative disorders
46. Thoracic disc herniation and stenosis
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47. Lumbar disc herniation
48. Discogenic low back pain
49. Lumbar spinal stenosis
50. Disorders of the sacroiliac joint
IX. Adult Spinal Deformities
51. Adult idiopathic and degenerative scoliosis
52. Sagittal plane deformities in adults
53. Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis in adults
X. Spinal Trauma
54. Evaluation of the spine trauma patient
55. Spinal cord injury
56. Upper cervical spine trauma
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57. Lower cervical spine injuries
58. Thoracic and lumbar spine fractures
59. Sacral fractures
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60. Spinal injuries in athletes
XI. Systemic Problems Affecting the Spinal Column
61. Disorders of the spinal cord and related structures
62. Primary spine tumors
63. Metastatic spine tumors
64. Metabolic bone diseases of the spine
65. Treatment options for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures
66. Spinal infections
67. Rheumatoid arthritis
68. Ankylosing spondylitis and diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
XII. Emerging Spinal Technologies
69. Spinal navigation, robotic surgery, and three-dimensional printing
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