Keith H. Bridwell – The Textbook of Spinal Surgery (Third edition)

Автор: Keith H. Bridwell
Название книги: The Textbook of Spinal Surgery (Third edition)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 3655
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Recognized as one of the leading references on the spine, this comprehensive two-volume text brings together experts from around the world to discuss the full scope of spinal surgery. This edition has many new contributors, including both neurosurgeons and orthopaedic surgeons, and presents a broad survey of all aspects of spinal surgery, including degenerative disorders, deformities, tumors, fractures, infections, and more.

Chapters describe current surgical techniques in detail and discuss indications, preoperative and postoperative care, and possible complications. More than 3,500 illustrations complement the text, and bulleted points, tables, and algorithms are used extensively throughout.

In this, the third edition of The Textbook of Spinal Surgery, we attempt to cover all important etiologies (deformity, degenerative, traumatic and neoplastic) of pediatric and adult spinal surgery, as well as all pathologies from the skull to the sacrum. It has now been 13 years since we published the second edition. In the first edition we had 45 chapters and 60 contributors. In the second edition we had 130 chapters and 182 contributors. In this edition we have 156 chapters and 60 contributors. As in the first two editions, we have a blend of orthopaedic and neurosurgical colleagues from all over the world contributing chapters. With this edition, we have more heavily peer-reviewed the chapters. Each chapter was reviewed by an associate and a senior editor before publication. Most chapters were returned to the author for revision before submitting to the publisher. Therein, we believe these chapters will impress you with their quality and excellence. Rather than bombard the reader with a 200-list bibliography, we decided to condense the reference list to a more manageable size. Therein, with each chapter we attempted to reference a small number of classic articles and otherwise the most current and pertinent ones. Since the second edition, spinal surgery has grown tremendously. More surgeons are specializing in spinal surgery and training with fellowships than was the case when the second edition was published. Neurosurgeons are also far more contributory to the field than was the case many years ago. We feel this will be reflected in the current edition. We are also in the process of producing several techniques videos which we feel will be helpful to the readers. The topics include adult thoracic vertebral column resection for scoliosis deformity, posterior vertebral column resection, cervical corpectomy and reconstruction, disc arthroplasty in the cervical spine, and extracavitary metastatic tumor resection and reconstruction. As with the past editions, this textbook will be of great value to medical students, select physical therapists and physiatrists who are particularly interested in the study of spinal pathology and surgical treatment, orthopaedic and neurosurgery residents and fellows and practicing orthopaedic surgeons and neurosurgeons. Keith H. Bridwell, MD