Aebi / Gunzburg / Szpalski The Aging Spine
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-27376-9
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 132 Seiten, eBook
ISBN: 978-3-540-27376-9
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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Weitere Infos & Material
Editorial.- The aging of the population: a growing concern for spine care in the twenty-first century.- Review.- Natural history of the aging spine.- Overview of osteoporosis: pathophysiology and determinants of bone strength.- Biomechanics of the aging spine.- Recognizing and reporting osteoporotic vertebral fractures.- Principles of management of osteometabolic disorders affecting the aging spine.- Medical treatment of vertebral osteoporosis.- Bisphosphonates in osteoporosis.- The aging spine: new technologies and therapeutics for the osteoporotic spine.- Vertebroplasty for osteoporotic spine fracture: prevention and treatment.- Interdisciplinary approach to balloon kyphoplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.- Economic implication of osteoporotic spine disease: cost to society.- Lumbar spinal stenosis in the elderly: an overview.- The conservative surgical treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis in the elderly.- Cervical myelopathy: clinical and neurophysiological evaluation.- Anterior decompression for cervical spondylotic myelopathy.- Posterior approach to the degenerative cervical spine.- Spinal metastasis in the elderly.
