Surgical care of the painful degenerative lumbar spine : evaluation, decision-making, techniques / Edgar N. Weaver, Jr ; with James B. Macon, Lydia Prokosch.
Symptom-focused care of the PDLS -- Fundamental anatomy -- Spino-pelvic parameters and sagittal balance -- Stabilization in SFC surgery on the PDLS -- Clinical evaluation of the patient with a PDLS -- The fundamental open surgical method -- Lateral intramuscular planar [Limp] approach for instrumentation/stabilization L3 to sacrum -- Minimally invasive surgical method -- Post-operative care -- Surgical situations of complex decision-making -- Socio-economics in spine surgery.
Summary
The learning curve in the management of painful degenerative lumbar spine patients is steep because every case has singular characteristics. Surgical Care of the Painful Degenerative Lumbar Spine: Evaluation, Decision-Making, Techniques by Edgar Weaver reflects more than 35 years of neurosurgical practice devoted to refining degenerative spine disease evaluation and techniques. The book emphasizes and instructs a symptom-focused approach in the surgical decision-making process, with determinant radiographic features used mainly supportively. The text begins with a thorough overview of anatomy,
