Part 1 Trauma: classification of trauma injuries to the spine; injury to the cervical spine; anatomic - radiologic consideration; classification by mechanism of injury and stability; flexion injuries, extension injuries, compression injuries, shearing injuries, rotation injuries, distraction injuries, fractures of occipital condyles; occipital cervical dislocations; fractures - dislocation of lumbosacral junctions; spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis; spinous-process sign, meyerding grading of spondylolisthesis, injury to diskovertebral disk herniation; spectrum of intervertebral disk nerniation, anterior disk herniation, intravertenral disk hibernation, posterior and posterolateral disk herniation, role of CT, myelography and diskography in the advent of MRI, treatment of thoracic and lumbosacral injuries. Part 2 Spondyloarthropathies: degenerative spine disease; osteorthritis of facet joints, spondylosis deformans, degenerative disk disease, DISH, rheumathoid arthritis; seronegative spondyloarthropathies; ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter's disease, psoriasis, miscellaneous spondyloarthropaties. Part 3 Tumours and tumourlike lesions: benign osteoblastic lesions of the spine; osteoid osteoma, osteoblastoma, benign cartilaginous and fibrous lesions; miscellaneous benign tumours of the spine; malignant tumours of the spine; treatment of tumours of the spine. Part 4 Metabolic and infectious abnormalities of the spine: osteoporosis, hyperparathyroidism; Paget's disease; miscellaneous metabolic abnormalities of the spine; osteomyelitis and disk space infection; treatment of metabolic and infectious abnormalities of the spine. Part 5 Congenital and development anomalies of the spine: scoliosis; juvenile and adolescent, adult, treatment of scoliosis.
