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Advanced Peripheral Nerve Surgery and Minimal Invasive Spinal Surgery
Title:
Advanced Peripheral Nerve Surgery and Minimal Invasive Spinal Surgery
Author:
Alexandre, Alberto. editor.
ISBN:
9783211274583
Physical Description:
XI, 157 p. With numerous illus., 1 in color. online resource.
Series:
Acta Neurochirurgica, 97
Contents:
Advanced peripheral nerve surgery -- Neurolysis: Is it beneficial or harmful? -- TOS pathophysiology and clinical features -- Post-traumatic thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) -- Brachial plexus injuries: regeneration timing and prognosis in patients without need for urgent operation. Preliminary results on truncus primarius superior -- Thoracic outlet syndrome due to hyperextension-hyperflexion cervical injury -- Whiplash injury. TOS and double crush syndrome. Forensic medical aspects -- Vascular thoracic outlet syndrome staging and treatment -- Suprascapular nerve entrapment -- Multicenter study on carpal tunnel syndrome and pregnancy incidence and natural course -- Endoscopic carpal tunnel release surgery: retrospective study of 390 consecutive cases -- Wrist median nerve motor conduction after end range repeated flexion and extension passive movements in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Pilot study -- Microsurgical treatment of lumbosacral plexus injuries -- Femoral nerve entrapment -- Italian multicentre study of peroneal mononeuropathy at the fibular head: study design and preliminary results -- Entrapment of crural branches of the common peroneal nerve -- Minimal invasive spinal surgery -- Percutaneous cervical nucleoplasty using coblation technology. Clinical results in fifty consecutive cases -- Intradiscal injection of oxygen-ozone gas mixture for the treatment of cervical disc herniations -- Percutaneous nucleoplasty for discoradicular conflict -- CT-guided oxygen-ozone treatment for first degree spondylolisthesis and spondylolysis -- Ozone chemonucleolysis in non-contained lumbar disc herniations -- Micro-endoscopic-discectomy (MED) for far lateral disc herniation in the lumbar spine. Technical note -- A long-term review of 50 patients out of 506 treated with automated percutaneous nucleotomy according to onik for lumbar-sacral disc herniation -- Surgical intradiscal decompression without annulotomy in lumbar disc herniation using a coblation device: preliminary results -- CAM versus nucleoplasty -- Paraspinal approach to the far lateral disc herniations: retrospective study on 42 cases -- Surgical radio-frequency epiduroscopy technique (R-ResAblator) and FBSS treatment: preliminary evaluations -- Disc coablation and epidural injection of steroids: a comparison of strategies in the treatment of mechanical spinal discogenic pain -- Preliminary results of a soft novel lumbar intervertebral prothesis (DIAM) in the degenerative spinal pathology -- Lumbar spinal decompression with a pneumatic orthesis (orthotrac): preliminary study -- The different outcomes of patients with disc herniation treated either by microdiscectomy, or by intradiscal ozone injection -- Quality of life, clinical and neurophysiological picture in patients operated on for lumbar stenosis -- Myofascial pain mimicking radicular syndromes -- Prevention of recurrent radicular pain after lumbar disc surgery: a prospective study.
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