Both residents and practicing orthopedic surgeons will appreciate this reasonably priced text on all aspects of spine surgery. Complete coverage is included on adults and children; and both surgical and non-surgical management techniques are featured. The material is organized into six sections: Principles and Diagnostic Tests, Pediatrics, Trauma, Degenerative Disorders, Adult Deformities and Miscellaneous Disorders, and Procedures and Instrumentation.

1 Anatomy of the Spine by Howard S. An 1 2 Surgical Exposure and Fusion Techniques of the Spine by Howard S. An 31 3 Spine Biomechanics by Tae-Hong Lim and Howard S. An 63 4 History and Physical Examination of the Spine by Lee H. Riley 91 5 Diagnostic Imaging of the Spine by Marc J. Levine and Scott D. Boden 103 6 Electrodiagnosis and Intraoperative Monitoring in Disorders of the Spinal Cord and Nerve Roots by Paul E. Barkhaus and Safwan S. Jaradeh 129 7 Congenital Anomalies of the Cervical Spine by Randall T. Loder 157 8 Neuromuscular Scoliosis by John G. Thometz 173 9 Surgical Treatment of Pediatric Idiopathic Scoliosis by Keith H. Bridwell 187 10 Congenital Spine Deformities by John E. Lonstein 213 11 Juvenile Kyphosis by Serena S. Hu and David S. Bradford 239 12 Lumbar Spondylolisthesis by Chun-sing Yu and Steven R. Garfin 249 13 Pediatric Spine Injuries by Roger M. Lyon 267 14 Spinal Cord Injury and Lower Cervical Spine Injuries by Paul A. Anderson 295 15 Upper Cervical Spine Injuries in the Adult by Alexander R. Vaccaro and Jerome M. Cotler 331 16 Thoracolumbar Spine Injuries by Geoffrey M. McCullen and Hansen A. Yuan and Bruce E. Fredrickson 359 17 Rehabilitation of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury by Christopher Formal 385 18 Cervical Disc Disease and Cervical Spondylosis by Sanford E. Emery 401 19 Thoracic Disc Disease by Michael D. Smith 413 20 Lumbar Disc Disease by Christopher P. Silveri and Frederick A. Simone 425 More...