Vertebral osteoporotic compression fractures /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Szpalski, Marek, Gunzburg, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2003]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Clinical implications of recent advances in the biology and physiology of bone
  • Biomechanics of compression fractures
  • Biomechanics and physiology of fragile vertebrae
  • Modeling of bone damage and fracture in osteoporosis
  • Analysis of the epidemiology and risk factors of vertebral compression fractures
  • Natural history
  • Clinical presentation and differential diagnosis
  • Consequences of kyphotic deformity
  • Mechanisms of pain in osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture
  • Osteoporotic vertebral fractures : neurological complications
  • Assessment of vertebral osteoporosis
  • Imaging and differential diagnosis of vertebral compression fractures
  • Initial assessment and emergency room attitude in osteoporotic vertebral fractures
  • Basis for pharmacological treatment
  • Pharmacological management of osteoporosis
  • Osteoporosis, physical activity, exercise, and recommendations
  • Vertebral compression fractures and orthoses
  • Pain clinic treatments
  • The clinical use of Cortoss synthetic bone void filler in the repair of fractures in the vertebral body
  • Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures
  • Vertebroplasty and use of methylmethacrylate
  • Percutaneous injection of Cortoss synthetic bone void filler in the repair of fractures in the vertebral body
  • Treatment of severe osteoporotic fractures through a microsurgical interlaminary approach
  • Percutaneous vertebroplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures : what can we learn from the bad results?
  • Toward a safer method of vertebroplasty : elevation and stabilization of vertebral compression fractures witha novel, inflatable, implantable, minimally porous mesh container
  • Vertebroplasty : the value of prophylactic augmentation
  • When to operate?
  • Osteoporotic thoracolumbar fractures : when is surgery indicated?
  • Augmentation of pedicle screws with calcium apatite cement
  • Vertebrectomy and vertebral reconstruction
  • Principles of cost/benefit ratios
  • Cost analysis of medical and surgical treatment of vertebral fractures