Contributors
Preface
I INTRODUCTION
William C. Welch) George B. Jacobs，
Roger P. Jackson
2 SURGICAL ANATOMY
OF THE SPINE
Thomas. Lovely
3 PATIENT HISTORY AND
NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION
Joseph V. McDonald， William C. Welch
4 PERIOPERATIVE DIAGNOSTIC
IMAGING STUDIES
Gordon R. Bell
5 PREOPERATIVE AND
INTRAOPERATIVE
NEUROPHYSIOLOGIC
RECORDINGS
Aage R. Miller
6 ANESTHESIA FOR SPINAL
SURGERY
Irene P. Osborn
7 SPINAL MECHANICS. SPINAL
INSTABILITY， AND INDICATIONS
FOR OPERATIVE INTERVENTION
Gregory. Przbylsk@ William C. Welch，
George B. Jacobs
8 ANTERIOR APPROACHES
TO THE CERVICAL SPINE
Patrick A. Roth， William C. Welch
9 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT
OF CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC
MYELOPATHY， Part 1： Technique and
Results ofLaminectomy
Joseph A. Epstein， Nancy E. Epstein
10 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT
OF CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC
MYELOPATHY， Part 2： Posterior
Cervical Fixation
Michael D. Smith
11 ANTERIOR EXPOSURES OF THE
CERVICOTHORACIC， THORACIC，
AND THORACOLUMBAR SPINE
Gregory P. GrazianOy Stephen M. Bell
12 ANTERIOR APPROACHES
AND FUSION TECHNIQUES
OF THE LUMBAR SPINE
Robert}. Goitz) William C. Lauerman
13 LUMBAR SPINE FUSION
Lumbar Disc Excision for Radiculopathy
Thomas}. Lovely， William C. Welch)
A. John Poppy John B. Waldman
Posterior Lumbar Spinal Fusion
Without Instrumentation
James D. Kang
Posterior Instrumentation
of the Lumbar Spine
William P. Donaldson III
14 SURGICAL TREATMENT
OF SCOLIOSIS
Harry L. Shufflebarger
15 ALTERNATIVE TO OPEN
LUMBAR DISCECTOMY：
ARTHROSCOPIC
MICRODISCECTOMY
Parviz Kambin
16 IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED
POSTOPERATIVE
COMPLICATIONS
Reginald Q@ Knight
17 PREOPERATIVE AND
POSTOPERATIVE BACK PAIN
MANAGEMENT
Steven C. Levin) Brett R. Stacey)
Kimberly Cantees
18 CONCLUSION
William C. Welch， George B. Jacobs)
Roger P. Jackson
Index