Lumbar Spine : Official Publication of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine.

The Lumbar Spine -- Contents -- Contributing Authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION I Basic Science -- Epidemiology and the Economics of Low Back Pain -- Pathophysiology of Nerve Root Pain in Disc Herniation and Spinal Stenosis -- Biomechanical Considerations of Disc Degeneration -- Morphologic Changes of End Plates in Degenerative Disc Disease -- Clinical Spinal Instability Resulting from Injury and Degeneration -- Spinal Instrumentation -- Fracture and Repair of Lumbar Vertebrae -- Genetic Transmission of Common Spinal Disorders -- Genetic Applications to Lumbar Disc Disease -- Clinical Neurophysiologic and Electrodiagnostic Testing in Disorders of the Lumbar Spine -- Sensorimotor Control of the Lumbar Spine -- Outcomes Assessment: Overview and Specific Tools -- The Role of Outcomes and How to Integrate Them into Your Practice -- SECTION II Alternatives to Traditional Nonoperative Treatment -- Manual Therapy in Patients with Low Back Pain -- Acupuncture and Reflexology -- SECTION III The Injured Worker -- Returning Workers to Gainful Employment -- Occupational Ergonomics -- SECTION IV Surgery -- Preparation for Surgery -- Surgical Approaches to the Thoracolumbar Spine -- Surgical Approaches to the Lumbar Spine: Anterior and Posterior -- Posterior and Anterior Surgical Approaches to the Lumbosacral Junction -- Endoscopic Anterior Lumbar Procedures -- Biology of Bone Grafting: Autograft and Allograft -- Bone Graft Substitutes in Spinal Surgery -- Principles of Spinal Instrumentation in Degenerative Disorders of the Lumbar Spine -- Spinal Instrumentation Overview in Lumbar Degenerative Disorders: Cages -- Translaminar Screw Fixation -- SECTION V Specific Clinical Entities -- Lumbar Disc Disorders -- Facet Joint Denervation: A Minimally Invasive Treatment for Low Back Pain in Selected Patients -- Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy.

Operative Management of the Degenerative Disc: Posterior and Posterolateral Procedures -- Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion -- Operative Treatment of Anterior Procedures -- Operative Treatment of Anterior and Posterior Fusion -- Degenerative Disc Disease: Fusion Cages and Dowels -- Minimally Invasive Procedures for Anterior Column Fusion and Reconstruction -- Degenerative Disc Disease: Complications of Surgery -- Dynamic Stabilization in the Treatment of Low Back Pain Due to Degenerative Disorders -- Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement: Rationale and Biomechanics -- Lumbar Disc Replacement: Current Model, Results, and the Future -- Disc Herniation: Definition and Types -- Disc Herniation: Imaging -- Disc Herniation: Nonoperative Treatment -- Operative Treatment of Disc Herniation: Natural History and Indications for Surgery -- Operative Treatment of Disc Herniation: Laminotomy -- Chymopapain and Chemonucleolysis -- Microscopic Lumbar Discectomy -- Classification, Natural History, and Clinical Evaluation -- Imaging of Spinal Stenosis and Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis with Stenosis -- Spinal Stenosis Without Deformity: Nonoperative Treatment -- Indications for Surgery and Laminotomy Procedures -- Laminectomy for Spinal Stenosis -- Laminoplasty -- Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis with Spinal Stenosis: Natural History, Diagnosis, Clinical Presentation, and Nonoperative Treatment -- Decompression -- Decompression with Posterolateral Fusion -- Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion -- Decompression with Instrumented Fusion -- Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with Scoliosis-Kyphosis: Surgical Techniques, Results, and Complications -- Nondegenerative Spondylolisthesis: Epidemiology and Natural History, Classification, History and Physical Examination, and Nonoperative Treatment of Adults.

Imaging in the Evaluation of Lumbar and Lumbosacral Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis -- Evaluation and Management of the Athlete with "Pars Fracture" -- Indications for Surgery in Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis in Adults and Surgery for Low-Grade Spondylolisthesis -- Surgery for High-Grade Spondylolisthesis -- High-Grade Spondylolisthesis: Slip Reduction versus in situ Fusion -- Adult Scoliosis -- Adult Scoliosis: Indications for Surgery -- The Surgical Treatment of Sagittal Plane Deformity -- Spinopelvic Fixation -- Paget Disease of the Spine and Its Management -- Osteopenia: Basic Science, Magnitude of Problem, Classification, Clinical Presentation, and Medical Therapy -- Surgical Options and Indications: Kyphoplasty and Vertebroplasty -- Osteopenia: Vertebrectomy and Fusion -- Inflammatory Spondyloarthropathies -- Psoriatic Arthritis -- Ankylosing Spondylitis -- Ankylosing Spondylitis: Operative Treatment -- Pyogenic and Fungal Lumbar Spine Infections -- Tuberculosis -- Postoperative Lumbar Spine Infections -- Primary Spine Tumors -- Metastatic Spine Tumors -- Lumbar Spine Tumors: Posterior Approach -- Anterior Procedures -- Combined Anterior-Posterior Procedures -- Prognosis and Results of Surgery for Primary and Metastatic Tumors -- Determining Reasons for Failed Surgery -- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome -- Psychological Approaches to the Management of Failed Surgery and Revision Surgery -- Surgical Treatment of Symptomatic Recurrent Disc Herniation -- Management of Failed Lumbar Surgery: Recurrent Stenosis -- Failed Surgery and Revision Surgery: Failed Instrumentation -- Management of Failed Surgery: Adjacent Segment to Fusion -- Lumbar Pseudoarthrosis -- Management of Failed Surgery -- Management of the Failed Back Patient -- Subject Index -- Subject Index.

The official publication of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, this volume is the most authoritative and up-to-date reference on the lumbar spine. This edition provides more balance between basic science and clinical material and has been completely reorganized for easy reference. New chapters cover gene therapy, outcomes assessment, and alternatives to traditional nonoperative treatment. The editors have also added chapters on preparation for surgery, surgical approaches, spinal instrumentation, and bone grafts. Chapters on specific disorders have a consistent structure-definition, natural history, physical examination, imaging, nonoperative treatment, operative treatment, postoperative management, results of surgery, and complications.

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