Operative Techniques: Spine Surgery: Book, Website and DVD, 1e Hardcover - 2007

From the publisher

This multimedia resource offers you all the how-to guidance you need to perform all of the latest and best techniques in spine surgery. The complete, lavishly illustrated volume is made even better with a state-of-the-art companion web site! With chapters on such hot topics as immobilization techniques, anterior and posterior approaches, and thoracic spine surgery, you, as well as the members of your cross-disciplinary team, will appreciate the clear and concise, but detailed and visual approach of this atlas and video collection. The result is a detailed, easy-to-use reference that no orthopaedic surgeon should be without.

• Search the book online with full text web access and links to PubMed.
• Watch experts perform key techniques via video clips online and on the included DVD.
• See exactly what to do using step-by-step intraoperative photos demonstrating each technique and radiographs showing presenting problems and post-surgical outcomes.
• See cases as they present in real life using full-color photographs and interpretive diagrams that highlight key anatomical structures.
• Improve the quality of your technique and optimize outcomes with pearls and pitfalls from the authors.
• Be more thoroughly prepared with important details on positioning, exposures, instrumentation, and implants.
• Get just the information and guidance you need with each book's hands-on, clinical emphasis.