Image-Guided Spine Interventions
As image-guided spine interventions have increasingly become a primary strategy for managing back pain, the tools and capabilities available to practitioners have grown significantly. This fully revised edition of Image-Guided Spine Interventions presents
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Image-Guided Spine Interventions Second Edition
Edited by
John M. Mathis, BS, MSc, MD
Medical Director, Center for Advanced Imaging, Roanoke, VA, USA
Stanley Golovac, MD
Co-Director and CEO, Space Coast Pain Institute, Merritt Island, FL, USA
Editors John M. Mathis Medical Director Center for Advanced Imaging Roanoke, VA USA [email protected]
Stanley Golovac Co-Director and CEO Space Coast Pain Institute Merritt Island, FL USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0351-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0352-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0352-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009941057 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To the women in my life who make all things possible: Krista, Jamie, Juanita, Jean, Ida, Mildred, and Vernice. John M. Mathis To my loving wife, Elena, and my two children, Alexandra and Conrad. Stanley Golovac
Preface to the Second Edition
The field of minimally invasive spine intervention continues to evolve rapidly. Numerous changes and developments have been added to our tools and capabilities over the past decade. Image-Guided Spine Interventions, Second Edition, describes the varied and numerous tools that are available to the physicians who are involved in providing these procedures to appropriate patients. This book embraces clinical evaluation, pharmacological requirements, procedural recommendations, and a spectrum of procedures that will be of interest to the minimally invasive spine interventionalist. It covers a broad range of material that is presented by experts in each field, such as discography, percutaneous discectomy, vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty, epidural steroid injections, selective nerve root blocks, autonomic nerve blocks, spinal stimulator implantation, and spine vascular intervention. This book will be useful to all physicians who deal with back pain, including pain anesthesiologists, spine neurosurgeons, orthopedists, and radiologists. Both editors have clinical practices devoted solely to spine procedures and pain management. This rewarding area has grown rapidly, and it provides great opportunities for clinical development as well as potential to aid a very needy patient population. We sincerely hope th
