Main description:

As image-guided spine interventions have increasingly become a primary strategy for managing back pain, the tools and capabilities available to practitioners have grown significantly. This fully revised edition of Image-Guided Spine Interventions presents the latest procedures available to physicians who perform minimally invasive spine interventions. The comprehensive text covers the fundamentals-such as spine anatomy, procedural materials, and pharmacological requirements-along with chapters devoted to key topics such as discography, percutaneous descectomy, vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty, epidural steroid injections, and autonomic nerve blocks. Additionally, three new chapters are included in the Second Edition, covering pulsed radiofrequency procedures, sacroplasty, and spinal cord stimulation. Each technique is presented in a straightforward manner that allows the reader to effectively evaluate and implement new procedures. The text is further enhanced by nearly 200 images and illustrations.

Edited by Dr. John Mathis, a former president of the American Society of Spine Radiology, and Dr. Stanley Golovac, who both have clinical practices devoted solely to spine procedures and pain management, the book will be useful to all physicians dealing with back pain, including radiologists, pain anesthesiologists, spine neurosurgeons, and orthopedists. Physicians will once again find that Image-Guided Spine Interventions, 2nd Edition, is the pivotal authority on image-guided techniques for the spine.

Contents:

1 Spine Anatomy 1

John M. Mathis, Ali Shaibani, and Ajay K. Wakhloo

2 Materials Used in Image-Guided Spine Interventions 29

John M. Mathis

3 Patient Evaluation and Criteria for Procedure Selection 39

Harold J. Cordner

4 The Surgeon's Perspective: Image-Guided

Therapy and Its Relationship to Conventional

Surgical Management 57

F. Todd Wetzel

5 Image-Guided Percutaneous Spine Biopsy 75

A. Orlando Ortiz, Gregg H. Zoarski, and Allan L. Brook

6 Discography 107

Aaron Calodney and Duane Griffith

7 Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy 147

Stanley Golovac

8 Epidural Injections for the Treatment of Spine-Related

Pain Syndromes 157

Matthew T. Ranson and Timothy R. Deer

9 Pulsed Radiofrequency Procedures in Clinical Practice 175

Richard M. Rosenthal

10 Facet Joint Injections and Sacroiliac Joint Injections 207

Louis J. Raso

11 Autonomic Nerve Blockade 229

Stanley Golovac and John M. Mathis

12 Percutaneous Vertebroplasty 249

John M. Mathis and Charles Cho

13 Implanted Drug Delivery Systems 279

Lisa Jo Stearns

14 Endovascular Treatment of Vascular and Nonvascular

Diseases of the Spine 299

Shahram Rahimi, Ali Shaibani, and Ajay K. Wakhloo

15 Kyphoplasty: Balloon Assisted Vertebroplasty 337

John M. Mathis, Charles H. Cho, and Wayne J. Olan

16 Sacroplasty 355

Charles H. Cho, John M. Mathis, and Keith E. Kortman

17 Spinal Cord Stimulation: Uses and Applications 375

Stanley GolovacJohn M. Mathis and Charles Cho

13 Implanted Drug Delivery Systems 279

Lisa Jo Stearns

14 Endovascular Treatment of Vascular and Nonvascular

Diseases of the Spine 299

Shahram Rahimi, Ali Shaibani, and Ajay K. Wakhloo

15 Kyphoplasty: Balloon Assisted Vertebroplasty 337

John M. Mathis, Charles H. Cho, and Wayne J. Olan

16 Sacroplasty 355

Charles H. Cho, John M. Mathis, and Keith E. Kortman

17 Spinal Cord Stimulation: Uses and Applications 375

Stanley Golovac