Operative Techniques: Spine Surgery

Dr. Eli M. Baron is a Clinical Neurosurgery Associate Professor and a board certified neurosurgeon at the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center. Dr. Baron graduated the State University of New York at Binghamton with Summa Cum Laude in biological sciences. Afterwards he earned his medical degree at Temple University School of Medicine where he also completed a preliminary surgery year and a neurological surgery residency. He performed additional trainings in orthopaedic spine surgery at the famous Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a combined neurosurgical/orthopaedic spine fellowship at the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center. Dr. Baron is a prolific researcher and has published extensively in the fields of spine surgery and neurological surgery. He is the author and co-author of over 60 articles and book chapters on a wide range of subjects, all related to spinal disorders and spine surgery. Dr. Vaccaro has served as the president of Rothman Orthopaedics since 2014 and is the Richard H. Rothman Professor and Chairman in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor of Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the recipient of the Leon Wiltse award given for excellence in leadership and clinical research for spine care by the North American Spine Society (NASS) and is the past President of Cervical Spine Research Society (CSRS), the American Spinal Injury Association and the Association for Collaborative Spine Research. He is currently a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Board of Directors. He has over 900 peer-reviewed and 200 non-peer reviewed publications. He has published over 372 book chapters and is the editor of over 63 textbooks and co-editor of OKU-Spine I and editor of OKU-8. Dr. Vaccaro also serves as Co-Director of the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley.

Section 1: Cervical Spine

1. Closed Cervical Skeletal Tong Placement and Reduction Techniques

2. Halo Placement in the Pediatric and Adult Patient

3. Anterior Odontoid Resection: The Transoral Approach

4. Odontoid Screw Fixation

5. Anterior C1-C2 Arthrodesis: Lateral Approach of Barbour and Whitesides

6. Anterior Cervical Corpectomy/Diskectomy

7. Anterior Resection of Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament

8. Anterior Cervical Disk Arthroplasty

9. Occipital-Cervical Fusion

10. C2 Translaminar Screw Fixation

11. Harms Technique and Magerl Technique

12. Cervical Spine: Lateral Mass Screw Fixation

13. Cervical Pedicle Screw Fixation

14. Posterior Cervical Osteotomy Techniques

15. Posterior Cervical Laminoplasty

16. Posterior cervical foraminotomy, microdiscectomy

17. Cervical trauma classification and surgical treatment

Section 2: Thoracic Spine

18. Anterior Thoracic Diskectomy and Corpectomy

19. Anterior Thoracolumbar Spinal Fusion via Open Approach for Idiopathic Scoliosis

20. Operative Management of Scheuermann's Kyphosis

21. Resection of Intradural Intramedullary or Extramedullary Spinal Tumors

22. Endoscopic Thoracic Diskectomy

23. VEPTR Opening Wedge Thoracostomy for Congenital Spinal Deformities

24. Posterior Thoracolumbar Fusion Techniques for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

25. Thoracoplasty for Rib Deformity

26. Complete Vertebral Resection for Primary Spinal Tumors

27. Surgical treatment of Arachnoid Cysts

28. The Adult Surgical Management of Syringomyelia

29. Surgical treatment of Dural AV fistulas and AVM's

30. Adult scoliosis: classification and treatment

31. Spinopelvic balance: preop planning and calculation

Section 3

32. Sacropelvic Fixation

33. Posterior Far Lateral Diskectomy

34. The Lateral Extracavitary Approach for Vertebrectomy

35. Osteotomy Techniques (Smith-Petersen and Pedicle Subtraction) for Fixed Sagittal Imbalance

36. Spondylolysis Repair

37. Surgical Treatment of High-Grade Spondylolisthesis

38. Interspinous Process Motion-Sparing Implant and Coflex Interlaminar spacer

39. Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion

40. Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)

41. Transpsoas Approaches to the Thoracolumbar Spine for Discectomy and Fusion

42. Lumbar Total Disk Arthroplasty

43. Vertebraplasty/Kyphoplasty

44. Minimally Invasive Exposure Techniques of the Lumbar Spine

45. Hemivertebrae Resection

46. Lumbar Internal Laminectomy

47. Lumbar cortical screw fixation

48. Neuronavigation: setup and workflow

49. Thoracolumbar trauma classification and surgical treatment

50. Sacral Trauma clssificaltion and Surgical Treament

51. SI Joint Fusion