Main description:

A panel of world-renowned experts presents a complete course on evaluating and treating patients with back pain, including interventional spinal procedures, spinal imaging, and the clinical evaluation of the spine patient. The authors focus on all the critical spinal procedures, ranging from such traditional methods as selective nerve root blocks, epidural injections, facet injections, sacroiliac joint injections, to such state-of-the art techniques as spinal biopsy, percutaneous vertebroplasty, spinal imaging, nucleoplasty, discography, intradiscal electrothermal therapy, and transcatheter therapy for tumors of the spine. Additional material is provided on basic spinal anatomy, CT, MRI, the nuclear medicine of the spine, and the pharmacology of the medications used in injection procedures.

Contents:

I. Spinal Anatomy, Imaging, and Clinical Evaluation

Spinal Anatomy
Robert M. DePhilip and J. Kevin McGraw

Computed Tomography of the Spine
Stephen F. Futterer

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Spine
Eiran Mandelker, Gretchen G. Cordero, Dennis H. Son, and J. Kevin McGraw

Nuclear Medicine of the Spine
John E. Baumert, Jr.

Clinical Evaluation of the Spine Patient
L. Mark Dean

II. Interventional Spinal Procedures

History and Overview of Spinal Procedures
J. Kevin McGraw

Pharmacology of Medications Used in Spinal Injection Procedures
John A. Lippert

Selective Nerve Root Blocks
Dennis J. Griffin

Epidural Steroid Injections
Dennis J. Griffin

Facet Joint Injections
Jeffrey M. Boorstein and J. Kevin McGraw

Sacroiliac Joint Injections
Jeffrey M. Boorstein and J. Kevin McGraw

Discography
John A. Carrino and J. Kevin McGraw

Treatment of Discogenic Back Pain
Jeff S. Silber, J. Kevin McGraw, and John A. Lippert

Spinal Biopsy Techniques
Thomas M. Davis

Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
David F. Kallmes, Mary E. Jensen, and J. Kevin McGraw

Transcatheter Therapy for Tumors of the Spine
Peter J. Pema and Ronald F. Budzik

Index