Spinal Restabilization Procedures

This book on spinal restabilization techniques is an anatomical, biomechanical, clinical, radiological, and surgical overview of the diagnostic methods and newest treatment options for use in patients presenting with degenerative disc disease associated with spinal instability. Edited by a Neurosurgeon and a Neuroradiologist with extensive experience in these areas, it covers the most current information in the field of modern spinal corrective surgery. The varied therapeutic options are presented by many of the primary inventors and first users of the wide array of newly developed and individually unique intersegmental stabilization devices, interbody disc fusion appliances and intervertebral disc replacement implants. This international collection of chapters is intended to be of interest not only to spine surgeons, but also to any physician involved in the diagnosis and treatment of degenerative disc disease and spinal instability that is resistant to conservative management.

ISBN 0444510230   Pages 404 ISBN13 9780444510235 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Elsevier Health Sciences   Weight (grammes) 1220 Imprint Elsevier Health Sciences   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 267 Publication date 23 Aug 2002   Width (mm) 198 Library of Congress RD768.S653   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 617.4710592   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Foreword by M. Leonardi
		Preface
		List of Contributors
Pt. I		Background, history, biomechanics, and medical imaging features
1		Acquired degenerative changes of the intervertebral segments at and suprajacent to the lumbosacral junction: a radioanatomic analysis of the discal and nondiscal structures of the spinal column and perispinal soft tissues by J. R. Jinkins		3
2		Intervertebral disc cages: background, theory, specific types, and dilemmas by D. L. Kaech and J. R. Jinkins		37
3		Clinicoradiologic evaluation of degenerative spinal instability: indications and contraindications for a fusion using cages by D. L. Kaech and J. R. Jinkins		51
4		Axial loaded computer tomography of the lumbar spine by R. Cartolari		59
5		Cine-axial loaded computer tomography: pre- and post-surgical imaging - preliminary observations by R. Cartolari		67
6		Upright, weight-bearing, dynamic-kinetic MRI of the spine: pMRI/kMRI by J. R. Jinkins and J. Dworkin		73
7		Sagittal lumbar spinal balance: a method of measurement by P. Tropiano and J. J. Bronsard and D. L. Kaech		83
8		Spinal implant biomechanics for the non-engineer and the role of the interbody fusion device by K. E. Warden		95
9		Biomechanical testing of cervical and lumbar interbody fusion cages by H. J. Wilke and A. Kettler and L. Claes		107
Pt. II		Lumbar cages
10		Ray threaded fusion cages for stand-alone lumbar interbody fusions: 6-year follow-up study by C. D. Ray		121
11		Stand-alone cages for lumbar interbody fusion: is this a viable concept? by S. D. Kuslich		135
12		Contact cages for posterior lumbar interbody fusion by L. Beckers		145
13		Three-column spinal fusion using Prospace intervertebral blocks by J. J. Bronsard and P. Tropiano and C. Louis and D. L. Kaech		153
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