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The Aging Spine

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Aebi, Max (Editor ), Gunzburg, Robert (Editor ), Szpalski, Marek (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edición:1st ed. 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.