Lumbar Disc Disease
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Verlag)
978-0-88167-951-9 (ISBN)
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The revised and updated Second Edition of this volume is for clinicians requiring a practical reference on the latest advances in lumbar disc disease management. The greatly expanded Second Edition aims to be the most current, complete, and authoritative clinical reference on the diagnosis and the operative and nonoperative management of lumbar disc disease and related conditions, including the failed back syndrome, osteomyelitis of the spine, and lumbar stenosis. The Second Edition's coverage of surgical treatment features: new chapters on spinal instrumentation and fusion and on newer disc excision techniques such as percutaneous discectomy; full consideration of the complications of lumbar spine surgery and the medicolegal issues arising from such complications; an updated chapter on spinal imaging providing essential information on MRI and other current technologies and a new chapter on spinal manipulation and expanded coverage of nonoperative management of chronic low back pain.
Historical perspective on sciatica; anatomy and pathophysiology of lumbar disc disease; natural history and epidemiology of lumbar disc disease; clinical diagnosis; other causes of low back pain and sciatica; imaging of the lumbar spine; electrodiagnosis; non-operative treatment of low back pain sciatica; spinal manipulation; lumbar disc disease - surgical treatment; decompression and the "Inaccessible Zone"; microdiscectomy; automated percutaneous lumbar discectomy - indications, technique, and results; chemonucleolysis with chymopapain; complications of lumbar disc surgery; repeat operation for lumbar disc; the rationale for fusion in lumbar disc surgery; posterior lumbar interbody fusion; the role of spinal instrumentation in the failed back; spondyolisthesis; complications of instrumentation and fusion; spinal canal stenosis; back pain in children; lumbar arachnoiditis-etiology and therapy; lumbar vertebral osteomyelitis; srugical decision making in the chronic back syndrome; medical management of chronic low back pain; compensation low back pain; functional restoration; computerized decision making in disc diseae; medico-legal implications of complications of lumbar spine surgery.
| Zusatzinfo | 20 tables, 4 line drawings, 167 half-tones, 38 fineline illustrations |
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| Verlagsort | Philadelphia |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 1500 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Unfallchirurgie / Orthopädie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Behandlungstechniken | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-88167-951-8 / 0881679518 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-88167-951-9 / 9780881679519 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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