Surgical Approaches to the Spine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Anterior Cervical Approaches to the Spine

   • Robert G. Watkins

   Pages 1-6

3. Transoral Approach to C1-C2

   • Robert G. Watkins

   Pages 7-11

4. Transoral-Transpharyngeal Approach to the Cervical Spine

   • Uttam K. Sinha, Srinath Samudrala

   Pages 12-18

5. Ventral Approaches to the Clivus, C1, and C2

   • Ranjeev Singh Bhangoo, H. Alan Crockard

   Pages 19-33

6. Anterior Medial Approach to C1, C2, and C3

   • Robert G. Watkins

   Pages 34-41

7. Anterior Lateral Approach to the Upper Cervical Spine

   • Robert G. Watkins

   Pages 42-47

8. Anterior Medial Approach to the Midcervical Spine

   • Robert G. Watkins

   Pages 48-53

9. Lateral Approach to the Cervical Spine (Verbiest)

   • Robert G. Watkins

   Pages 54-59

10. Lateral Approach to the Cervical Spine (Hodgson)

    • Robert G. Watkins

    Pages 60-64

11. Supraclavicular Approach

    • Robert G. Watkins

    Pages 65-71

12. Lincoln Highway Approach to the Cervical Spine

    • Robert G. Watkins

    Pages 72-78

13. Cervicothoracic Junction

    • Robert G. Watkins

    Pages 79-80

14. Anterior Approach to the Cervicothoracic Spine

    • Salvador A. Brau

    Pages 81-86

15. Transsternal Approach to the Cervicothoracic Junction

    • Narayan Sundaresan, Alfred A. Steinberger, Frank Moore

    Pages 87-100

16. Transaxillary Approach to the Upper Dorsal Spine

    • Roger C. Breslau

    Pages 101-106

17. Third Rib Resection in the Transthoracic Approach

    • Robert G. Watkins

    Pages 107-112

18. Thoracotomy Approach

    • Robert G. Watkins

    Pages 113-123

19. The Thoracolumbar Junction

    • Robert G. Watkins

    Pages 124-126

20. Tenth Rib: Thoracoabdominal Approach

    • Robert G. Watkins

    Pages 127-132

In the years sin~e publication of the Hrst edition of SurgicaL Approaches to the Spine, a revolution has taken place in spinal surgery, Spinal technology has exploded, thereby in­ creasing the need for multiple access sites to the spine. The book was originally written because the spinal surgeon sometimes lacked the ability to approach the spine with the ideal procedure. As a result, spinal problems were often handled with a posterior approach when the treatment theories and biomechanical considerations of the spine dictated an anterior approach. Then John O'Brien and other anterior surgeons began to emphasize the need to perfect the approach so that the ideal operation was provided for each imli­ vidual patient. Through our work over the last 20 years, with surgeons such as Salvador Brau, a spinal access surgeon, surgeons are now dedicated to providing a safe, pain-free approach to the spine. This will ultimately be to the patient's great advantage. Advances in intradiscal dcvices, prostheses, and fusion techniqucs have mandated a safe and effec­ tive anterior approach to the spine. An operation to relieve spinal pain cannot exist if the approach produces more pain than the original problem. This second edition contains chapters on very complicated operations, such as the ap­ proaches to the sacrum and pelvis, the total vertebrectomy, trans clavicular cervicothoraeic approach, and anterior approach to the clivus of CI-C2. It is these major operations that put the patient' s lif~~ in jeopardy and require expertise in the approach.

• Wirbelsäulenchirurgie
• decompression
• spinal surgery
• spine
• spine surgery
• surgery
• surgical technique

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This second edition covers new areas like minimally invasive endoscopic approaches … but deals with quite complicated ones as well. … Thanks to the use of colour drawings and photographs, the iconography magnificently illustrates the clearcut text presented in a step-by-step methodical description. … This attractive book will be of a tremendous interest for any adult as well as pediatric orthopaedist or neurosurgeon performing spinal surgery. We can congratulate the authors for this well conceived book and the editor for the quality … ." (C.R. Muller, Acta Orthopaedica Belgica, Vol. 70 (3), 2004)

"Progress in spine surgery combined with the desire to make this work more complete prompted R.G. Watkins to direct this second edition. Several new chapters enrich this work, which now contains 43 chapters, constituting a solid base of work. … The text is enhanced by an abundant of associated iconography with many photographs and drawings … . The text is very didactic, with point-by-point descriptions … . This update is essential for all those who practise spine surgery regularly and constitutes an indisputable reference." (Laurent Balabaud, European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology, Vol. 15 (2), 2005)

• Clinical Orthopedic Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Robert G. Watkins

• St. Vincent’s Hospital, Los Angeles Spine Surgery Institute, Los Angeles, USA

  Robert G. Watkins

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