Spinal Instrumentation

Part 1 General principles: historical events leading to spine surgery, Jerome M. Cotler; surgical anatomy of the spine, Rongming Xu and Nabil A. Ebraheim; surgical approaches to the spine, Howard S. An; biomechanics of spinal instrumentation, Tae-Hong Lim and Howard S. An; bone grafts and substitutes, biomaterials and osteoinductive substances in spinal instrumentation, Jeffrey M. Toth and Howard S. An; principles of spinal instrumentation for cervical spinal trauma, Alexander R. Vaccaro and Kern Sungh; principles of spinal instrumentation in thoracolumbar fractures, Cathleen S. Van Buskirk and Jerome M. Cotler; principles of spinal instrumentation in degenerative disorders of the cervical spine, Howard S. An and S. Craig Humphreys; principles of spinal instrumentation in degenerative disorders of the lumbar spine, Louis G. Lenis and Howard S. An; principles of spinal instrumentation in adult deformities, Edward P. Southern and Howard S. An; principles of spinal instrumentation in paediatric spinal disorders, John P. Lubicky; principles of thoracoscopic and laparoscopic surgery, Stephen J. Pineda and Paul C. McAfee. Part 2 Regional considerations: posterior occiput and C-1/C-2 instrumentation, Dieter Grob and Howard S. An; posterior spinal instrumentation of the lower cervical spine, Howard S. An; transoral surgical techniques, Kee D. Kim et al; odontoid screw fixation, Jefrey E. Masciopinto et al; anterior cervical plating of the lower cervical spine, Hpoward S. An; posterior instrumentation of the thoracolumbar spine, Howard S. An; transpedicular screw instrumentation, Jed S. Vanichkachorn et al; anterior rod fixation techniques for the thoracolumbar spine, Lawrence G. Lenke and Fred A. Sweet; regional considerations in sacral and iliac fixation techniques, Gerard D. D'Ariano et al. Part 3 Specific spinal implants: Harrington instrumentation and modifications, Todd J. Albert et al; Luque instrumentation with sublaminar wiring, John G. Thometz and Howard S. An; segmental spinal instrumentation with spinous process wires, Denis S. Drummond; Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation, Richard A. Balderston; TSRH (Texas Scottish Rite Hospital) spinal instrumentation system, Charles E. Johnston II and Richard B. Ashman; ISOLA spinal implant system - an update, Marc A. Asher; Moss-Miami spinal instrumentation system, Harry L. Shufflebarger; the Wiltse system, Richard D. Peek et al; Edwards instrumentation - a modular spinal system, Charles C. Edwards; Rogozinski instrumentation, Abraham Rogozinski and Chaim Rogozinski; the synergy spinal system, Robert B. Winter et al; CD-horizon - a new Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation, J. Dubousset; Kaneda anterior scoliosis system (KASS) for anterior correction surgery of scoliosis, Kiyoshi Kaneda and Yasuhiro Shono; anterior Z-plate thoracolumbar instrumentation, Alexander J. Ghanayem and Thomas A. Zdeblick; university plate, Howard S. An and Robert A. McGuire, Jr.; the Bagby and Kuslich (BAK) interbody fusion method, Ste