Spinal reconstruction : clinical examples of applied basic science, biomechanics and engineering / edited by Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski ... [et al.].

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Published: New York : Informa Healthcare, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The role of minimally invasive surgery in instrumented lumbar fusion / Donald W. Kucharzyk and Thomas J. Milroy
  • 2. Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion / Mark R. Grubb
  • 3. Nonendoscopic percutaneous disc decompression as treatment of discogenic radiculopathy / Michael J. DePalma and Curtis W. Slipman
  • 4. Endoscopic decompression for lumbar spondylolysis : clinical and biomechanical observations / Koichi Sairyo, Vijay K. Goel, Ashok Biyani, Nabil Ebraheim, Toshinori Sakai and Daisuke Togawa
  • 5. Improving the outcome of discectomy with specific attention to the annulus fibrosus / Kenneth Yonemura, John Sherman, Walter Peppelman, Jr., Steven Griffith, Reginald Davis and Joseph C. Cauthen III
  • 6. The lumbar alligator spinal system - a simple and less invasive device for posterior lumbar fixation / Takeshi Fuji, Noboru Hosono and Yasuji Kato
  • 7. Functional spinal stability : the role of the back muscles / Lieven A. Danneels, Guy G. Vanderstraeten and Hugo J. De Cuyper
  • 8. Influence of injury or fusion of a single motion segment on other motion segments in the spine / Yuichi Kasai, Atsumasa Uchida, Takaya Kato, Tadashi Inaba and Masataka Tokuda
  • 9. Degenerative disease adjacent to spinal fusion / Patrick W. Hitchon, Timothy Lindley, Stephanie Beeler, Brian Walsh and Ghassan Skaf
  • 10. Adjacent segment degeneration / Adrian P. Jackson and Joseph H. Perm
  • 11. Quantifying the surgical risk factors for adjacent level degeneration in the lumbar spine : a meta-analysis of the published literature / Christopher M. Bono, Michael Alapatt, Chelsey Simmons and Hassan Serhan
  • 12. Transition zone failure in patients undergoing instrumented lumbar fusions from L1 or L2 to the sacrum / Michael L. Swank, Adam G. Miller and Leslie L. Korbee
  • 13. Adjacent intervertebral disc lesions following anterior cervical decompression and fusion : a minimum 10-year follow-up / Shunji Matsunaga, Yoshimi Nagatomo, Takuya Yamamoto, Kyoji Hayashi, Kazunori Yone and Setsuro Komiya
  • 14. The role of biologics in lumbar interbody fusions / Donald W. Kucharzyk
  • 15. Current perspectives on biologic strategies for the therapy of intervertebral disc degeneration / Helen E. Gruber and Edward N. Hanley, Jr.
  • 16. Intervertebral disc growth factors / Mats Gronblad and Jukka Tolonen
  • 17. Biological manipulation for degenerative disc disease utilizing intradiscal osteogenic protein-1 (OP-1/BMP-7) injection - an animal study / Mamoru Kawakami, Takuji Matsumoto, Hiroshi Hashizume, Munehito Yoshida, Koichi Kuribayashi and Susan Chubinskaya
  • 18. Clinical strategies for delivery of osteoinductive growth factors / Frank S. Hodges and Steven M. Theiss
  • 19. New adjunct in spine interbody fusion : designed bioabsorbable cage with cell-based gene therapy / Chia-Ying Lin, Scott J. Hollister, Paul H. Krebsbach and Frank La Marca
  • 20. Scientific basis of interventional therapies for discogenic pain : neural mechanisms of discogenic pain / Yasuchika Aoki, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Seiji Ohtori and Hideshige Moriya
  • 21. Molecular diagnosis of spinal infection / Naomi Kobayashi, Gary W. Procop, Hiroshige Sakai, Daisuke Togawa and Thomas W. Bauer
  • 22. Review of the effect of COX-II agents on the healing of a lumbar spine arthrodesis / Mark R. Foster
  • 23. Motion preservation instead of spinal fusion / Aditya V. Ingalhalikar, Patrick W. Hitchon and Tae-Hong Lim
  • 24. Intervertebral disc arthroplasty as an alternative to spinal fusion : rationale and biomechanical and design considerations / Andrew P. White, James P. Lawrence and Jonathan N. Grauer
  • 25. Biomechanical aspects of the spine motion preservation systems / Vijay K. Goel, Ahamed Faizan, Leonora Felon, Ashok Biyani, Dennis McGowan and Shih-Tien Wang
  • 26. The ideal artificial lumbar intervertebral disc / Isador H. Lieberman, Edward Benzel and E. Raymond S. Ross
  • 27. Artificial discs and their clinical track records / Rick B. Delamarter and Ben B. Pradhan
  • 28. Dynesys spinal instrumentation system / William C. Welch, Peter C. Gerszten, Boyle C. Cheng and James Maxwell
  • 29. Clinical application of computer image guidance systems / Michael O. Kelleher, Linda McEvoy and Ciaran Bolger
  • 30. Image-guided angled rongeur for posterior lumbar discectomy / Masahiko Kanamori and Kazuo Ohmori
  • 31. Radioscopic methods for introduction of pedicular screws : is a navigator necessary? / Matias Alfonso, Carlos Villas and Jose Luis Beguiristain
  • 32. Bone graft materials used to augment spinal arthrodesis / Debdut Biswas, Jonathan N. Grauer and Andrew P. White
  • 33. Current concepts in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty / Hwan Tak Hee
  • 34. Opportunities and challenges for bioabsorbable polymers in spinal reconstruction / David D. Hile, Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski and Debra J. Trantolo
  • 35. Biomechanical properties of a newly designed bioabsorbable anterior cervical plate / Christopher P. Ames, Frank L. Acosta, Jr., Robert H. Chamberlain, Adolfo Espinoza Larios and Neil R. Crawford
  • 36. The role of electrical stimulation in enhancing fusions with autograft, allograft, and bone graft substitutes / Donald W. Kucharzyk and Thomas J. Milroy
  • 37. An analysis of physical factors promoting bone healing or formation with special reference to the spine / Mark R. Foster
  • 38. Results of extended corpectomy, stabilization, and fusion of the cervical and cervico-thoracic spine / Frank L. Acosta, Jr., Carlos J. Ledezma, Henry E. Aryan and Christopher P. Ames
  • 39. Reconstruction of the cervical spine using artificial pedicle screws / Frank L. Acosta, Jr., Henry E. Aryan and Christopher P. Ames
  • 40. Posterior fixation for atlantoaxial instability : various surgical techniques with wire and screw fixation / Naohisa Miyakoshi, Yoichi Shimada and Michio Hongo.