Practical Points in Spine Surgery

PART 1. General approaches to the patients with spinal disorders
Diagnostic perspectives 10
Surgical perspectives 18

PART 2. Pain
Medical management of pain 32
Surgical management of pain 38

PART 3. Benign spinal disorders
Cervical spine 44
Thoracic spine 54
Lumbar spine 63

PART 4. Spinal tumors and vascular disease
Ependymomas 74
Astrocytoma and miscellaneous intramedullary tumors 82
Schwannomas 90
Meningiomas 97
Cavernous hemangiomas 103
Spinal vascular malformations 108

PART 5. Traumatic spinal disorders
Vertebral compression fracture 116
Surgical treatment of traumatic spine 122

PART 6. Chiari malformation and syringomyelia
Chiari malformation and syringomyelia 132

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