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Surgery of the Pediatric Spine

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I. Development and clinical aspects of the pediatric spine
1. Neural and vertebral column embryogenesis
2. Biomechanics of the pediatric spine
3. Neuro and skeletal imaging studies of the pediatric spine
4. Clinical and pre-operatice evaluation
5. Anesthetic considerations in pediatric spinal procedures
6. Intraoperative Neuromonitoring
II. Surgical Anatomy and approaches to the spine and spinal cord
7. Neuroanatomy of the spinal cord
8. Cervical anatomy and approaches
9. Thoracic and lumbar anatomy and approaches
10. Lumbosacral junction and pelvis and approaches
III. Congenital anomalies and developmental disorders
11. Craniovertebral junction anomalies
12. Chiari malformations and synringomyelia
13. Open dysraphism: myelomeningocele
14. Closed dysraphism: lipmyelomeningocele
15. Dermal sinus
16. Diastematomyleia
17. Tethered cord syndrome
18. Intervertebral disc disease in adolescents
19. Congenital and Development Lumbar Stenosis
20. Spondylolysis and Spondylolithesis
IV. Neoplasms
21. Intramedullary spinal cord tumors
22. Extramedullary spinal cord tumor
23. Neurofibromatosis and the spine
24. Primary tumors of the spine
25. Metastatic tumors of the spine
V. Vascular Malformations of the Pediatric Spine
26. Spinal Cord AVM
27. Spinal Cord and dural Av fistulas
VI. Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases of the Pediatric Spine
28. Inflamatory disease of the spine
29. Spinal infection
30. Tuberculosis
VII. Pediatric and Neuromuscular Disease and Spinal Deformity
31. Overview of neuromuscular spine deformity and treatment
32. Spastic management
33. Muscular dystrophy
34. Cerebral palsy
35. Poliomyelitus
VIII. Pediatric Spinal Trauma and Surgical Management
36. Spinal cord injury in children evaluation and early treatment principles
37. Cervical spine trauma in children including SCIWORA
38. Thoracolumbar spine trauma in children
39. Injury modulation and spinal cord regeneration
IX. Pediatric Spinal Deformities and Treatment
40. Congenital scoliosis
41. Congential kyphosis
42. Spine deformity secondary to dysplasias and other diseases
43. Infantile and juvenile scoliosis
44. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
X. Special Techniques for Treatment of Spine Deformity
45. Non-surgical management of spinal deformities
46. Pediatric occipital cervical instrumentation
47. Anterior cervical instrumentation in pediatrics
48. Posterior cervical instrumentation in pediatrics
49. Posterior instrumentation for Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbar scoliosis
50. Instrumentation for kyphosis
51. Anterior instrumentation for Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbar scoliosis
52. Endoscopic and (min-open techniques) and fixations for idiopathic scoloiosis
53. Thorascopic release and fusion in the prone position
54. Osteotomies for correction of pediatric spine deformities
55. Vertebrectomy and posterior substraction osteotomies for correction of severe spinal deformity
56. Lumbosacral and sacropelvic fixation techniques
57. Surgical techniques for correction of spondylolisthesis
58. Expansion thoracoplasty and growing systems for complex young spine deformities
59. Fusionless surgery for spine deformity
60. Preop planning for revision surgery
XI. Rehabilitation
61. Rehabilitation after pediatic spinal surgery
62. Pediatric rehabilitation of children with spinal cord injury

 
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