Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Injury (eBook)

Arun Paul Amar, MD., Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

Foreword by Charles H. Tator.

Foreword by Michael L. J. Apuzzo.

1 Pathogenesis of acute spinal cord injury and theoretical bases
of neurological recovery.

Arun Paul Amar.

2 Pharmacotherapy for spinal cord injury.

Steven Casha, Joseph Silvaggio and R. John Hurlbert.

3 Prehospital and emergency department management of spinal cord
injury.

Stuart P. Swadron, Danny L. Chang and Brian Wilbur.

4 Radiographic workup of spinal cord injury.

Nestor R. Gonzalez, Larry T. Khoo and Richard G.
Fessler.

5 Controversies in surgical decompression: timing of
decompressive surgery of the spinal cord.

Mark S. Gerber and Volker K.H. Sonntag.

6 Biomechanics of spinal column failure.

Eric P. Roger, G. Alexander Jones and Edward C.
Benzel.

7 Principles of spine stabilization.

G. Alexander Jones, Eric P. Roger and Edward C.
Benzel.

8 Controversies in the management of cervical spinal cord
injury.

Paul G. Matz and Mark N. Hadley.

9 Surgical decision-making in spinal fracture dislocations.

Robert G. Watkins.

10 Spinal cord injury in pediatric patients.

Philipp R. Aldana and Douglas L. Brockmeyer.

11 Management of penetrating spinal cord injury.

K. Anthony Kim, Arun Paul Amar and Michael L. Levy.

12 Traumatic vascular injury to the cervical spine.

Michael L. DiLuna and Arun Paul Amar.

13 Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring during spinal
surgery.

Indro Chakrabarti, Jerry Larson, Gordon L. Engler and Steven
L. Giannotta.

14 Surgery after the acute phase of traumatic spinal cord
injury.

Michael Y. Wang and Barth A. Green.

Index

From the forewords:

"Arun Amar has performed a real service to the
practitioners involved in the surgical management of spinal
injuries by putting together this excellent group of papers, and I
am optimistic that the knowledge transfer will result in improved
patient outcomes."

Charles H. Tator, CM, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS

University of Toronto and Toronto Western Hospital

"The content of this volume is essential material for all
clinical neuro-scientists and an important presentation for all
those seeking to develop a grasp of modernity of concept and
practical action relating to this problem."

Michael L. J. Apuzzo, M.D.

Editor-in-Chief of Neurosurgery

"This is a good book for any emergency room or neurosciences
library."

Doodys Review