Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Injury: Controversies and Consensus -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Foreword -- 1 Pathogenesis of acute spinal cord injury and theoretical bases of neurological recovery -- 2 Pharmacotherapy for spinal cord injury -- 3 Prehospital and emergency department management of spinal cord injury -- 4 Radiographic workup of spinal cord injury -- 5 Controversies in surgical decompression: timing of decompressive surgery of the spinal cord -- 6 Biomechanics of spinal column failure -- 7 Principles of spine stabilization -- 8 Controversies in the management of cervical spinal cord injury -- 9 Surgical decision-making in spinal fracture dislocations -- 10 Spinal cord injury in pediatric patients -- 11 Management of penetrating spinal cord injury -- 12 Traumatic vascular injury to the cervical spine -- 13 Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring during spinal surgery -- 14 Surgery after the acute phase of traumatic spinal cord injury -- Index.