Image-Guided Spine Interventions

Image-guided spine interventions have become a primary strategy for managing back pain. This guide will enable interested physicians who treat back pain, including radiologists, pain anesthesiologists, rehabilitation specialists, spine neurosurgeons, and orthopedists, to realize the improved outcomes associated with image-guided techniques. With a focus on the needs of practitioners, Dr. John Mathis, past-president of the American Society of Spine Radiology, selected expert physicians to author chapters that are both thorough and practical. The comprehensive text covers the fundamentals, such as spine anatomy, procedural materials, and patient selection. A particularly useful chapter discusses the surgeon's perspective on the relationship of image-guided therapy to conventional surgical approaches. The book also delves into the spectrum of both well-established and cutting-edge image-guided techniques, including percutaneous discectomy, epidurolysis, RF neurolysis, and balloon kyphoplasty. Each technique is presented in a straightforward manner that allows the reader to effectively evaluate and implement new procedures. The text is also enhanced by more than 300 photographs and illustrations. Physicians will find that Image-Guided Spine Interventions is the pivotal authority on image-guided techniques, distinguished by its practitioner-centered emphasis.