Challenging Cases in Spine Surgery -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- PART I Trauma -- 1 Odontoid Fracture Type I -- 2 Transodontoid Screw for Type II Odontoid Fracture -- 3 Nonunion of a Type II Odontoid Fracture -- 4 Atlantoaxial Instability -- 5 Bilateral Locked Facets -- 6 Cervical Kyphosis -- 7 Spinal Trauma -- 8 Ankylosing Spondylitis -- 9 Esophageal Injury -- 10 Traumatic Thoracic Fracture -- 11 Lumbar Fracture -- 12 Burst Fracture -- 13 Traumatic Lumbar Fracture -- 14 Multiple Burst Fractures -- 15 Sacral Fracture -- 16 Atlanto-occipital Dislocation -- PART II Inflammatory -- 17 Cranial Settling -- 18 Rheumatoid Arthritis -- 19 Rheumatoid Patient with Ventral Cord Compression -- 20 Rheumatoid Arthritis with Instability -- PART III Degenerative -- SECTION A Cervical -- 21 Percutaneous Cervical Decompression -- 22 Cervical Cages -- 23 Mechanical Neck Pain -- 24 Multilevel Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF) -- 25 Hardware Failure -- 26 Postoperative Kyphosis -- 27 Multilevel Cervical Stenosis -- 28 Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament (OPLL) -- 29 Cervical Myelopathy -- 30 Cervical Hardware Failure -- 31 Central Cord with Osteoporosis -- 32 Pseudomeningocele -- 33 Angioedema -- SECTION B Thoracic -- 34 Thoracic Disc -- 35 Syrinx -- 36 Transverse Myelitis -- SECTION C Lumbar -- 37 Discogenic Back Pain -- 38 Adjacent Segment Disease -- 39 Motion Preservation Technology -- 40 Percutaneous Lumbar Laminotomies and Foraminotomies -- 41 Large Disc Herniation Treated Percutaneously -- 42 Segmental Instability -- 43 Lumbar Instability and Radiculopathy -- 44 Foot Drop -- 45 Pars Defect -- 46 High-Grade Spondylolisthesis -- 47 Multilevel Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion -- 48 Bone Morphogenetic Protein -- 49 Degenerative Scoliosis -- 50 Nerve Root Impingement by Pedicle Screw.

51 Lumbar Scoliosis -- 52 Degenerative Lumbar Spine Disease with Segmental Instability -- 53 Lumbar Nonunion -- 54 Mechanical Back Pain with Previous Posterior Fusion -- 55 Osteoporosis -- PART IV Neoplasm -- 56 Metastatic Lesion -- 57 Plasmacytoma with Postembolization Swelling -- 58 Thoracic Tumor -- 59 Thoracolumbar Instrumentation Failure -- 60 Thoracic Screw Misplacement -- 61 Recurrent Giant Cell Tumor -- 62 Lumbosacral Giant Cell Tumor with Segmental Instability -- 63 Large Upper Cervical Nerve Sheath Tumor -- 64 Benign Thoracic Tumor -- 65 Spinal Tumor -- 66 Lumbar Schwannoma -- 67 Metastatic Spinal Cord Lesion -- 68 Sacral Lesion -- 69 Recurrent Sacral Tumor -- PART V Infection -- 70 Spinal Epidural Abscess -- 71 Thoracic Osteomyelitis -- 72 Pott's Disease -- 73 Intramedullary Cervical Lesion -- PART VI Congenital -- 74 Klippel-Feil Spine -- 75 Klippel-Feil Syndrome -- 76 Cervical Rib -- 77 Ankylosing Hyperostosis of Forestier and Rotes-Querol -- 78 Fibrous Dysplasia -- 79 Diastematomyelia -- 80 Spinal Teratoma -- 81 Congenital Abnormality of the Spine -- 82 Thoracic Arteriovenous Fistula -- 83 Arachnoid Cyst -- 84 Achondroplasia -- 85 Arachnoiditis -- 86 Spinal Deformity -- 87 Tethered Cord -- Index.