The Textbook of Spinal Surgery: Volume 1

Recognized as one of the leading references on the spine, this comprehensive two-volume text brings together experts from around the world to discuss the full scope of spinal surgery. This edition has many new contributors, including both neurosurgeons and orthopaedic surgeons, and presents a broad survey of all aspects of spinal surgery, including degenerative disorders, deformities, tumors, fractures, infections, and more.

Chapters describe current surgical techniques in detail and discuss indications, preoperative and postoperative care, and possible complications. More than 3,500 illustrations complement the text, and bulleted points, tables, and algorithms are used extensively throughout.

A companion Website with the fully searchable text and procedural video is included with the two-volume text.

"This is an outstanding treatise that deserves to be in every orthopedic surgical library. Its most outstanding feature is that the chapters have been peer-reviewed. Chapters were reviewed by an associate and a senior editor, and most were returned to the author(s) for revision before submission to the publisher. For such a huge book, it doesn't get any better than that. This is a significant update of the premier publication of this kind in the field."

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Weighted Numerical Score: 96 - 4 Stars!
- Doody Enterprises, Inc. (July 2012)
- Samuel J. Chmell, MD(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)