Complex Spine Cases: A Collection of Current Techniques

Munish C Gupta MDProfessor, Chief of Spine Service, Vice Chairman of Department of Orthopaedics, Co-Director of the Spine Centre, University of California, Davis Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sacramento, CA, USASachin GuptaSpecialist Spine Surgeon, Carmichael, CA, USAAlexander R VaccaroProfessor, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Pennsylvania, USA

• EOS (Early-Onset Scoliosis)Congenital Scoliosis treated with growing rods and VEPTRTreatment of lumbar congenital scoliosis with bilateral vertical expandable prosthetic titanium rib (VEPTR) in a child with central core diseaseEarly Onset Scoliosis: Treatment with Dual Growing Rods A Case PresentationSevere Scoliosis in Three Young Children Treated with ShillaPatient with progressive congenital kyphoscoliosis treated with the Shilla5 guided-growth technique and vertebral corpectomy Pediatric Spinal DeformityCongenital Scoliosis Due to Unilateral Unsegmented Bar and Fused Ribs in Two One-Year Old Boys: Two Approaches with Two Different Results At a Mean 35 Year Follow-UpSevere Kyphoscoliosis of the High Thoracic Spine with Neurofibromatosis treated with Traction and Posterior surgeryA Severe Kyphoscoliosis Deformity treated by Preoperative Halo Gravity Traction, Anterior Release followed by Multilevel Ponte Osteotomies and Posterior InstrumentationGrowing Rods in Neuromuscular Spinal Deformity: Successes and ChallengesStaged Anterior Release and Posterior Instrumentation for Severe Rigid Adolescent Idiopathic ScoliosisThoracic Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis 3-dimensional Operative CorrectionCase Presentation Diastematomyelia in Severe Spinal Deformity: Treatment with Vertebral Column ResectionVertebral Column Resection for Severe Scoliosis with Spina BifidaPosterior Two Level Vertebral Column Resection for Severe Spinal DeformityLate Treatment of Severe Progressive Early Onset Kyphoscoliosis with Halo Gravity Traction and Posterior Vertebral Column ResectionTotal Spine Lordosis in Neuromuscular Disease: Rigid Spine SyndromeSevere Deformity from Charcot Spine in a Patient with Spinal Cord InjuryThoracolumbar Deformities in Hurler’s SyndromeHigh Grade Spondylolisthesis treated with TransfixationA Case of High Dysplastic Spondylolisthesis Adult Spinal DeformityAdult Scoliosis treated with Anterior and Posterior Spinal Fusion – 2 Unlike CasesSevere Scoliosis in an Adult Treated with Posterior Fusion and TLIFSagittal Plane Deformity Correction in an Adult PatientPostoperative Fixed Lumbosacral Deformity with Sagittal ImbalanceSagittal Imbalance Due to Focal Kyphotic Deformity in an Adult: Less Invasive Surgical Treatment with Anterior Column Reconstruction (ACR) A Case PresentationLess Invasive Anterior Longitudinal Ligament Release: Anterior Column Realignment (ACR) for the Treatment of Adjacent Segment Disease with Latrogenic FatbackPosttraumatic Lumbar Kyphotic DeformityComplex Spine Deformity Reconstruction using Posterior Vertebral Column Resection and Extensive Multilevel VertebroplastyMinimally Invasive treatment of Adult Scoliosis Trauma and TumorsFracture-Dislocation with Incomplete Neurologic InjuryPost traumatic Kyphosis treated with Smith Peterson OsteotomiesTraumatic Spinal Injury Treated with Minimally Invasive StabilizationComplex Reconstruction of the Metastatic Spine DiseasePosterior Only Resection and Instrumentation for a Tumor Cervical SpineAnkylosing Spondylitis in the Cervical Spine Treatment with C7 Pedicle Subtraction OsteotomyTreatment of Malunion Odontoid Type III with Transoral Odontoid Osteotomy and Posterior Atlantoaxial FixationCervical Postlaminectomy Kyphosis, Suprajacent Atlantoaxial Stenosis with Recurrent Myelopathy: Treatment with Combined Posterior and Anterior Osteotomy via Posterior-Anterior-Posterior ApproachFixed Atlantoaxial Dislocation with Cord Compression