Now in its Third Edition, this popular volume in the Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery Series combines the step-by-step procedural guidance that readers have come to trust with new and updated discussions of specific procedures. The text’s how-to format helps readers face the challenges of spinal surgery with confidence.

Features

• Surgical guidance from recognized masters in their specialty helps refine technique, minimize error, improve outcomes, and manage complications.
  • Consistent, reader-friendly format provides key facts on the background, indications/contraindications, presurgical preparation, operative technique, postsurgical follow-up, recommended reading, and tips and pearls for each procedure.
  • Abundant intraoperative color photos and precise line drawings reveal areas not visible to the surgeon during a procedure.

NEW to the Third Edition…
• Six new chapters address Transpedicular Fixation, Anterior Cervical Arthroplasty, Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion, and Lumbar Disc Arthroplasty.
• Expanded coverage of neurologic issues in spinal surgery broadens the text’s scope and assists in presurgical planning and choice of technique.

Contents

Chapter 1: Anterior Cervical Approach
Chapter 2: Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
Chapter 3: Anterior Cervical Arthroplasty
Chapter 4: Cervical Vertebrectomy and Plating
Chapter 5: Cervical Osteotomy
Chapter 6: Anterior Odontoid Fixation
Chapter 7: Anterior Cervicothoracic Approach
Chapter 8: Posterior Cervical Microdiscectomy/Foraminotomy
Chapter 9: Cervical Laminoplasty
Chapter 10: Laminectomy and Posterior Fusion
Chapter 11: C1-C2 Posterior Screw-Rod Fixation
Chapter 12: Posterior Occipitocervical Fusion
Chapter 13: Anterior Thoracolumbar Extensile Approach
Chapter 14: Endoscopic and Anterior Approaches for Spinal Deformity Surgery in the Adolescent and Young Adult
Chapter 15: Hemivertebrae Excision
Chapter 16: Anterior Thoracolumbar Corpectomy and Stabilization
Chapter 17: Anterior Thoracoscopic Discectomy
Chapter 18: Posterior Spinal Fixation for Thoracolumbar Spinal Trauma
Chapter 19: Posterior Spinal Instrumentation Techniques for Spinal Deformity
Chapter 20: Lumbar Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy
Chapter 21: Vertebral Resection for the Correction of Fixed Coronal Deformity
Chapter 22: Lumbar Microdiscectomy
Chapter 23: Lumbar Discectomy Using a Tubular Refactor System
Chapter 24: Transpedicular Fixation – Open   Chapter 25:     Transpedicular Fixation – Minimally Invasive
Chapter 25: Transpedicular Fixation – Minimally Invasive
Chapter 26: Transforaminal Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
Chapter 27: Mini-ALIF
Chapter 28: Lumbar Disc Arthroplasty
Chapter 29: Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion
Chapter 30: Sacropelvic Fixation