Spine Surgery

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Basic Module 1: Conservative Therapy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Treatment for Acute, Subacute and Chronic Low Back Pain

      • Ehab Shiban, Bernhard Meyer

      Pages 3-8

   3. Indications for Emergency Surgical Treatment

      • Max Jägersberg, Enrico Tessitore

      Pages 9-15

3. Basic Module 2: Surgical Treatment of Degenerative Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Spinal Pathologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Anterior Cervical Subaxial Treatment (Fusion)

      • Florian Ringel, Sven R. Kantelhardt

      Pages 19-24

   3. Cervical Motion Preserving Procedures (TDR)

      • Florian Ringel, Eleftherios Archavlis

      Pages 25-31

   4. Posterior ‘Motion Preserving’ Procedures (Frykholm)

      • Florian Ringel, Angelika Gutenberg

      Pages 33-37

   5. Cervical Myelopathy: Indication and Operative Procedure

      • Marcus Czabanka, Peter Vajkoczy

      Pages 39-49

   6. Cervical Posterior Long Construct Stabilization

      • Lukas Bobinski

      Pages 51-57

   7. Thoracic Disc Herniation and Myelopathy

      • Bernhard Meyer, Sandro M. Krieg

      Pages 59-64

   8. Lumbar Disc Herniation, Nucleo- and Sequesterectomy

      • N. A. van der Gaag, Wouter A. Moojen

      Pages 65-69

   9. Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Requiring Decompression and Fusion

      • Ioannis Magras, Alkinoos Athanasiou, Vasiliki Magra

      Pages 71-75

   10. Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

       • Ioannis Magras, Alkinoos Athanasiou, Vasiliki Magra

       Pages 77-80

   11. Degenerative Spondylolisthesis

       • Juan D. Patino, Jesús Lafuente

       Pages 81-86

   12. Basic Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis

       • Sebastian Hartmann, Anja Tschugg, Claudius Thomé

       Pages 87-94

   13. Thoracolumbar Instrumentation and Fusion for Degenerative Disc Disease

       • Sven Kevin Tschoeke

       Pages 95-107

   14. Lumbar Non-Fusion Techniques

       • Michael Stoffel

       Pages 109-116

   15. Management of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

       • Ehab Shiban, Bernhard Meyer

       Pages 117-122

   16. Surgical Treatment Options at the Sacroiliac Joint

       • Simon Bayerl, Dimitri Tkatschenko, Julius Dengler, Peter Vajkoczy

       Pages 123-127

This book covers the content of European postgraduate spine surgery courses, using a case-based approach. It describes a stepwise solution to a real-world clinical problem and compares this with the best available evidence. It then provides suggestions on how to bridge the gap (if there is one) between standard of care and evidence-based medicine.

Spine Surgery: A Case-Based Approach is aimed at postgraduate students of spine surgery (both trainee neurosurgeons and trainee orthopedic surgeons), and is also of interest to medical students.

• spinal deformity
• spinal fracture
• degenerative spinal pathology
• spine tumor
• intradural pathology
• spine surgery complication

“The book is written for trainees, but it serves well as a reference for seasoned attendings looking for in‐depth knowledge of a certain topic. It certainly meets and exceeds the expectations for the intended audience. … This is a high‐quality publication that deserves a spot on everyone's bookshelf.  It is very useful to trainees who wish to understand the decision‐making process and algorithms for most spinal pathology.” (Cristian Gragnaniello, Doody's Book Reviews, August 02, 2019)

• Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

  Bernhard Meyer

• Department of Spine Surgery, Sana Klinikum Offenbach, Offenbach, Germany

  Michael Rauschmann

Bernhard Meyer was born in Augsburg, Germany in 1962. He spent two years at the University of Padova Medical School, Italy before completing his medical degree at the University of Erlangen, Germany in 1989. During this time he completed a sub-internship at Northwestern University, Chicago and SUNY at Brooklyn, NY, USA. He completed his neurosurgery internship and residency in Germany at the University of Tübingen and City Hospital of Duisburg, respectively. He was then a visiting neurosurgery resident at the University of Zürich, Switzerland and Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA. He received Board Certification as a Neurosurgeon from the Regional Chamber of Physicians of Northrhine-Westfalia, Düsseldorf Germany in 1995. Since then, he has worked at the University of Bonn and then the Technical University of Munich, where he is now a Full Professor. He is Chairman of the Spine Section of EANS, Past-President of the German Academy of Neurosurgery and President of the International Group for the Advancement of Spinal Surgery. He will be President of the German Spine Society in 2019.

Michael Rauschmann was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1963. He is currently Head of the Department of Spine and Reconstructive Surgery at the Spinal Orthopedics and Reconstructive Orthopedics Clinic, Offenbach am Main, Germany. He studied medicine at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University from 1986-1992, having previously completed military service and trained as a car mechanic. He trained in trauma and general surgery in Durban, South Africa, and at the Nordwest Hospital in Frankfurt. He became a specialist in orthopedics in 1998, a specialist in orthopedics and trauma surgery in 2007, and in 1992 he completed his doctor of medicine with the dissertation 'Morphology of the head at the spotted Dolphin Stenella attenuata with special consideration of the cranial nerves. Macroscopic preparation and modern imaging techniques.' In 2005 he completed his postdoctoral qualification with the thesis 'Hydroxyapatite/calcium sulphate form body as absorbable carrier individual local antibiotic therapy of acute and chronic bone infections'. Since 2000 he has worked as a consultant and was Head of the Department of Spine Surgery from 2006 until 2017. He became a Professor in 2010 and President of German Spine Society in 2015. He has published several German-language books on spine surgery.

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