(PDF) Spine Surgery – A Case-Based Approach by Meyer

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Table of Contents

Part 1: Basics and Conservative Therapy.- Psychosomatics/behaviour therapy.-Indications for emergency treatment.- Part 2: Surgical treatment of degenerative cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal pathologies.- Anterior cervical sub-axial treatment (fusion).- Cervical motion preserving procedures (TDR).- Posterior motion preserving procedures (Frykholm, laminoplasty).- Cervical myelopathy: indication and operative procedure.- Thoracic disc herniation and myelopathy.- Lumbar disc herniation, nucleo-and sequestrectomy.- Lumbar spinal stenosis.- Degenerative spondylolisthesis.- Slipped vertebra and degenerative lumbar scoliosis.- Lumbar non-fusion techniques.- Surgical treatment options at the sacroiliac joint.- Navigation in cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.- Part 3: Deformity.- Diagnosis and conservativetreatment of AIS.- Operative treatment of AIS.- Congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis.- Adult scoliosis and complication management.- Conservative treatment options and indication for surgery in spondylolisthesis.- Operative treatment of spondylolisthesis.- Parameters of spinopelvic balance, etiology and pathogenesis of disturbed spinopelvic balance.- Diagnosis, classification, and general treatment options in hyperkyphosis.- Scheuermann Disease and M. Bechterew.- Surgical correction and special features in traumatic and congenital kyphotic deformities.- Part 4: Spinal fractures.- Pre-hospital management, physical examination, polytrauma management.- Upper cervical trauma (C0-C2).- Subaxial cervical trauma (C2 – C7).- Management criteria for thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbar fractures.- Conservative management of spinal fractures.- Sacral fractures.- Pediatric spine injuries.- Spine injuries in the elderly.- Injuries in ankylosed spine condition.- Part 5: Tumors of spine and inflammatory diseases.- Vertebral osteomyelitis.- Rheumatic diseases.- Metabolic bone diseases.- Primary tumors.- Metastases.- Part 6: Intradural pathologies.- Vascular malformations: arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)/Cavernoma, spinal dAVFs.- Inflammation of spinal cord (myelitis).- Intradural, extramedullary tumors.- Intradural, intramedullary tumors.- Dysraphia, tethered cord, segmentation disorders.- Syringomyelia, sacral cysts.- Spinal cord injury – classification and diagnostics.- Spinal cord injury – surgical and pharmaceutical therapy.- Spontaneous CSF leak and ideopathic spinal cord herniation.- Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.- Management of intraoperative dural tear.- Therapy of chronic pain syndromes (pumps, DCS, DBS, CS).- Part 7: Extended indications and advanced operative techniques.- Craniocervical junction.- Basilar invagination.- Cervicothoracic junction.- Kyphosis in ankylosing spondylitis.- Thoracic spine.- Primary bone tumor.- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).- Lumbar degenerative scoliosis.- Adult degenerative scoliosis.- Long vs short contructs.- High-grade lumbar spondylolisthesis.- Spondyloptosis.- Sacrum.- Intradural tumors.- Oligosymptomatic intramedullary lesion.- Part 8: Revisions and complication management.- Positioning of the patient and related complications.- Postlaminectomy kyphosis.- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (epidural scar).- Adjacent segment degeneration.- Management of post-op infections.- Pseudoarthrosis management (case with implant failure).- Coronal decompensation.- Proximal junctional kyphosis.- Blood management and thromboprophylaxis in spinal surgery.- Management of failure of osteoporotic fixation.- Visceral complications of deformity surgery (pulmonary, esophageal injury or chylothorax).- Revision of adult deformity.- Iatrogenic neurologic injury.- Management of CSF fistula.- Management of mechanical failure of cervical spine.- Pitfalls of anterior lumbar revision surgery (vasculary or uretheral injury).