This practical, user-friendly guide is designed for neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons with an interest in pediatric spinal deformity. While multiple definitive, high-density textbooks exist in this field, this book is formatted as a concise, tactical resource.
Chapters emphasize tangible clinical take-home points, with deeper references provided for further exploration. The text assumes a working knowledge of spine surgery fundamentals and serves as a practical guide to treating children with spinal pathologies. It highlights unique considerations in pediatric spine surgery, technical nuances, pathology, technology and systems-based care. Chapters are primarily bulleted to deliver quick, high-yield information on preoperative, operative and postoperative considerations, as well as potential complicationssupported by ample radiography and intraoperative photographs.
The book concludes with a Masters' Series, in which leading experts provide step-by-step explanations of their approaches to both typical and complex cases.
Part I. Unique Considerations in the Evaluation and Treatment of Growing
Children with Spine Disorders.- Organizing Your Thoughts on Pediatric Spinal
Deformity.- Measuring the Films: An Overview.- Mehta Casting in Infantile
Scoliosis.- How and When to Use Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods.- How
and When to Use Traditional Growing Rods.- Vertical Expandable Prosthetic
Titanium Rib (VEPTR).- How and When to Use a Growth Guidance Surgery
(Shilla).- How and When to Treat Congenital Scoliosis.- Nuances of Syndromic
Scoliosis: Neurofibromatosis Type 1.- Nuances of Syndromic Scoliosis:
Connective Tissue Marfan's, Ehlers-Danlos, and Loeys-Dietz.- Nuances of
Neuromuscular Scoliosis.- Special Considerations in SMA Patients.-
Neuromuscular Scoliosis: Myelomeningocele Associated Spine Deformity.- Part
II. Technical Nuances: How to Treat Pediatric Patients and How to Perform
Pediatric Spine Surgery.- Nuances of Conservative Treatment of Adolescent
Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS): Bracing and Physical Therapy.- Operative
Indications and Level Selection in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.- How and
When to Perform a Selective Thoracic Fusion for AIS.- How and When to Perform
Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering in AIS.- Halo Gravity Traction.- How and
When to Place Freehand Pedicle Screws in Pediatric Spinal Deformity.- How and
When to Use Hooks, Sublaminar Wires and Other Instrumentation.- How and When
to Place Cervical Instrumentation.- How and When to Perform a Posterior
Column Osteotomy in a Child.- How and When to Perform a Three-Column
Osteotomy in a Child.- Pelvic Instrumentation in the Young/Growing Spine.-
Scheuermanns Kyphosis.- High Grade Spondylolisthesis.- Postlaminectomy
Kyphosis.- Cervical and Craniocervical Spine Deformity in Children.- Chiari
Type-1 Malformation, Syringomyelia, and Scoliosis.- Types of Braces and
Bracing Techniques for Pediatric Scoliosis.- Spinal Column Shortening for
Tethered Spinal Cord.- Part III. Technology and Systems-Based Care for
Children.- Pre-Operative Medical Optimization In Pediatric Spinal Deformity
Patients.- Anesthetic Considerations in Pediatric Spinal Deformity Surgery.-
Enabling Technologies in Pediatric Spine Surgery.- Building a
High-Performance Team for Complex Pediatric Spine Surgery: A Comprehensive
Approach.- Postoperative Care on the ICU and Floor for Pediatric Spine
Patients.- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) for Pediatric Spinal
Deformity.- Considerations for Pediatric Patients after Spinal Deformity
Surgery.- When Kids Grow Up: Adult Idiopathic Scoliosis.- Long-term Sagittal
Alignment in Children and Young Adults.- The Economics of Pediatric Spinal
Deformity.- Modalities of Neuromonitoring in Pediatric Spinal Deformity
Surgery.- Managing Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Changes in the Stable
Spine.- Intraoperative Neuromonitoring changes in High-Risk Spine Surgery.-
Cases with Unreliable Neuromonitoring Data.- Part IV. How the Masters Do It.-
How Do the Masters Do it? A Step-By-Step Guide for Adolescent Idiopathic
Scoliosis Lenke 1A.- How Do the Masters Do it? A Step-By-Step Guide for
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Lenke 5C.- How Do the Masters Do it? A
Step-By-Step Guide for Vertebral Column Resection.- How Do the Masters Do it?
A Step-By-Step Guide for Early Onset Scoliosis.- How Do the Masters Do it? A
Step-By-Step Guide for High Grade Spondylolisthesis.
Richard P. Menger, MD, MPA, Department of Neurosurgery, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA
Rajiv R. Iyer, MD, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Michael G. Vitale, MD, MPH, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Lawrence G. Lenke, MD, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
