AOSpine Masters Series, Volume 4: Adult Spinal Deformities
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AOSpine Masters Series, Volume 4: Adult Spinal Deformities

  1. 164 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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AOSpine Masters Series, Volume 4: Adult Spinal Deformities

About this book

An expert reference on the management of adult spinal deformities

In this fourth volume of the AOSpine Masters Series experts from around the world share their strategies for managing the most common adult spinal deformities. This book gives clinicians the guidance they need to make the right treatment decisions and provide the best care for their patients. Chapter topics include osteotomies for rigid spinal deformities, postoperative coronal decompensation in adult deformity, and biomechanics and material science for deformity correction.

Key Features:

  • The issues of patient selection, outcomes, and complications along with all the essential preoperative and intraoperative factors are discussed in detail in every chapter
  • Editors are internationally recognized authorities on the management of adult spinal deformities
  • Each chapter includes expert tips and pearls

The AOSpine Masters Series, a co-publication of Thieme and AOSpine, a Clinical Division of the AO Foundation, addresses current clinical issues whereby international masters of spine share their expertise and recommendations on a particular topic. The goal of the series is to contribute to an evolving, dynamic model of an evidence-based medicine approach to spine care.

All spine surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, and neurosurgeons, along with residents and fellows in these areas, will find this book to be an excellent reference that they will consult often.

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Yes, you can access AOSpine Masters Series, Volume 4: Adult Spinal Deformities by Lawrence G Lenke, Kenneth M.C. Cheung, Lawrence G Lenke,Kenneth M.C. Cheung, Luiz Roberto Gomes Vialle in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Orthopedics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Thieme
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781626231009
eBook ISBN
9781626231016
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Orthopedics

Table of contents

  1. AOSpine Masters Series: Adult Spinal Deformities
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series Preface
  6. Guest Editors’ Preface
  7. Contributors
  8. 1 Preoperative Evaluation and Optimization for Surgery
  9. 2 Decision Making in Adult Deformity Surgery: Decompression Versus Short or Long Fusion
  10. 3 The Use of Osteotomies for Rigid Spinal Deformities
  11. 4 Indications and Techniques for Sacral-Pelvic Fixation in Adult Spinal Deformity
  12. 5 Instrumentation Strategies in Osteoporotic Spine: How to Prevent Failure?
  13. 6 The Incidence and Management of Acute Neurologic Complications Following Complex Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery
  14. 7 Postoperative Coronal Decompensation in Adult Deformity
  15. 8 Measuring Outcome and Value in Adult Deformity Surgery
  16. 9 Junctional Issues Following Adult Deformity Surgery
  17. 10 Biomechanics and Material Science for Deformity Correction
  18. 11 Pseudarthrosis and Infection
  19. Index