Spine Surgery: Techniques, Complication Avoidance, and Management, 2-Volume Set by Edward C. Benzel, M. Pélegrin

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Synopsis

This best-selling resource explores the full spectrum of surgical techniques used in spine surgery, and describes how to avoid and manage complex problems. It emphasizes how to achieve successful outcomes and minimize risks. The 2nd Edition delivers more than 25 brand-new chapters, as well as extensive revisions and updates throughout, to reflect all of the latest advances in the field. It also features contributions from an increased number of orthopaedic surgeons to round out the strong coverage provided by the many neurosurgeon contributors.

• Features contributions from well-known neurosurgeons and orthopaedic surgeons, for well-rounded, authoritative coverage from beginning to end.
  
• Offers more than 825 outstanding illustrations that demonstrate how to perform every procedure step by step.

• Provides more than 25 brand-new chapters, as well as extensive revisions or total rewrites to the majority of existing chapters-to present all of the most up-to-date information available on every aspect of spine surgery.
  
• Includes chapters on hot topics such as Nonspinal Pathology Masquerading as Spinal Disease
• Bone Void Fillers: Bone and Bone Substitutes
• Data Management • Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
• Ankylosing Spondylitis and Related Disorders • Craniocervical Junction Deformities
• Pediatric Spinal Deformities • Subsidence and Dynamic Spinal Stabilization
• and The Nonoperative Management of Neck and Back Pain.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Celso Agner, MD, MSc (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description:Spine surgery has evolved significantly over the past few decades. Primarily because of the technical advances achieved with better imaging and understanding of the biomechanics of the spine, progress has occurred at a faster pace than expected. A book on the topic is extremely welcome.
Purpose:The purpose is to comprehensively address the management of complex spinal conditions, a valid idea that cannot be overemphasized. The authors fully meet their objectives.
Audience:Neurosurgeons and fellows in spine surgery are the main target for this book.
Features:Multiple authors contribute 172 chapters in this book. It could not be more comprehensive. It spans the anatomical, physiological and, above all, the pathological, clinical, and surgical aspects of both complex and simple spine problems. The pictures are often self-explanatory and the text, readable. The last few chapters are the most welcome, since they discuss the current role of economics in spine surgery, the problems of coding and reimbursement, and the management of complications. This last subject is important, since complications may be seen in anyone's career.
Assessment:This is one of the classics of spine surgery and should be purchased by neurosurgical and general medical libraries.

Biography

Chairman, Cleveland Clinic Spine Institute; Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA