Main description:

This book aims provides detailed description of the surgical technique of spine surgery through internal fixation. It illustrates pedicle screw entry site in each vertebra using excellently recorded photographs of vertebral specimens and 3D reconstructed images. In the first chapter, the authors illustrate the entry point of pedicle screw in the cadaveric vertebrae. From Chapter Two to Chapter Seventeen, the authors introduce sixteen kinds of approaches and instrumentations according to the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, for the management of spondylosis, trauma and deformity.

Contents:

1 Technique and application of atlas internal fixation 2 C2 Internal Fixation Techinques and Their Applications 3 Lateral Mass Screw Fixation Techinques for the Lower Cervica Spine 4 Surgical Techniques for Pedicle Screw Fixation of the Cervical Spine and Their Applications 5 Anterior Cervical Plate Techniques and Their Applications 6 Artificial Cervical Disc Techniques and Their Applications 7 The CENTERPIECE (TM) Posterior Cervical Laminoplasty and Internal Fixation System 8 Surgical Techniques for Pedicle Screw Fixation of the Thoracic Spine 9 Lumbar pedicle screw fixation techniques and their applications 10 Surgical Techniques for Illiac Screws 11 Surgical Techniques for Sacral Pedicle Screws 12 Surgical Techniques for Thoracolumbar Anterior Internal Fixation 13 Spine minimally invasive internal fixation techniques and their applications 14 Thoracolumbar percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) and percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) 15 Internal fixation technique and application in the osteoporotic spine 16 Anterior odontoid screw techniques and application 17 The interbody fusion system