Color Atlas of Spinal Cord Surgery

Jörg Klekamp studied medicine at the Hannover Medical School in Germany. After a postdoctoral research project on human brain development in the Department of Neuropathology at Sydney University, Australia, he started his neurosurgical training under supervision of Prof. Madjid Samii in Hannover, Germany. He devoted his neurosurgical career to spinal cord pathologies and has published several articles in respected international peer review journals on syringomyelia, spinal tumors and malformations of the craniocervical junction and spinal canal over the past 30 years. He is the author of  monographs on syringomyelia and spinal tumors and provided book chapters for german as well as international text books on these topics.

1. Anatomy.- 1.1. Cervical Spine.- 1.2. Thoracic Spine.- 1.3. Lumbar Spine and Sacrum.- 1.4. Spinal Meninges.- 1.5. Spinal Cord and Nerve Roots.- 2. Standard Approaches.- 2.1. Posterolateral Approach.- 2.2. Posterior Midline Approach.- 3. Spinal Tumors.- 3.1. Extradural Tumors.- 3.2. Extramedullary Tumors.- 3.3. Intramedullary Tumors.- 4. Malformations.- 4.1. Malformations at the Craniocervical Junction.- 4.2. Malformations in the Spinal Canal and Spinal Hamartomas.- 5. Spinal Arteriovenous Malformations 5.1. Surgical Technique.- 5.2. Cavernomas.- 5.3. Arteriovenous Fistulas.- 6. Pathologies of Spinal Meninges.- 6.1. Pathologies of the Spinal Dura Mater.- 6.2. Pathologies of the Spinal Arachnoid.