This volume presents the radiologic evaluation of the major orthopaedic spine injuries and diseases, including a clinical overview of treatment options and post-operative evaluation. Some of the topics covered include classification by mechanism of injury and stability, degenerative spine disease, treatment of thoracic and lumbosacral injuries, rheumathoid arthritis and benign cartilaginous and fibrous lesions. This book was written primarily for orthopaedic surgeons, radiologists and chiropractors and should be accessible to the graduate level medical student.
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.
