Max Aebi & Robert Gunzburg 
The Aging Spine [PDF ebook] 

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Table of Content

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.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 132 ● ISBN 9783540273769 ● File size 2.5 MB ● Editor Max Aebi & Robert Gunzburg ● Publisher Springer Berlin ● City Heidelberg ● Country DE ● Published 2005 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2160833 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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