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Spinal Deformities

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I. Gross Anatomy: Surgical Anatomy of the Sacrum and Pelvis; Surgical Anatomy of the Lumbar Spine; Surgical Anatomy of the Thoracic Spine; Surgical Anatomy of the Cervical Spine; Muscles and Ligaments.
II. Microanatomy: Development and Maturation of the Spine and Spinal Cord; Microscopic Anatomy of Bone; Macro and Microscopic Anatomy of the Disc and Endplate; Nervous System and Muscle.
III. Physiology: Physiology of Bone; Nerve and Muscle Physiology; Pulmonary and Chest Cage Physiology; Electrophysiology; Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) Physiology.
IV. Biomechanics: Biomechanics; Biomechanics of the Intervertebral Disc; Spine Testing Modalities.
V. Pharmacology: Antibiotic Therapy in Spine Surgery; Osteoporosis: Evaluation and Pharmacologic Treatment; Pharmacologic Agents that Minimize Perioperative Blood Loss...; Common Medications in Spinal Afflictions.
VI. Pathology: Pathophysiology of Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease; Spinal Inflammatory Arthritides; Spinal Neuroarthropathy (Charcot's Spine); Pyogenic Vertebral Infection; Coagulation Disorders in Spine Surgery; Blood Conservation Strategies in Spine Surgery; Management of Metastatic Disease to the Spine.
VII. Clinical Evaluation: Evaluation of the Patient with Congenital Spine Deformity; Clinical Evaluation of the Patient with a Spine Deformity; Clinical Evaluation for Neuromuscular Scoliosis and Kyphosis; Evaluation of Back Pain in the Spinal Deformity Patient.
VIII. Neurology: Spinal Cord Injury, Reflexes, and Syndromes; Anterior Horn Cell Disease: Poliomyelitis, Spinal Muscular; Congenital and Developmental Spinal Cord Abnormalities; The Spine in Friedrich's Ataxia, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease; Cerebral Palsy, Myelodysplasia, Hydrosyringomyelia, Rett...
IX. Anesthesia: Anesthetic Considerations for Spinal Surgery.
X. Radiology: Radiology.
XI. Rehabilitation: Rehabilitation.
XII. Treatment of the Adult Spine: Degenerative Lumbar Stenosis; Degenerative Disc Disease and Degenerative Spondylolisthesis of...; Adult Spine Trauma; Inflammatory Arthritis of the Spine; Vertebral Osteomyelitis; Neoplasms of the Spine.
XIII. Surgical Techniques: Tables and Positioning; Halo and Cranial Traction; Approaches to the Cervical Spine; Open Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Surgical Approaches; Cervical Decompression; Decompression for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis; Spine Fusion; Spine Osteotomy and Resection; Staging Plus Complications of Approaches; Thoracoplasty; Endoscopic and Mini-Open Approaches to the Spine.
XIV. Instrumentation and Complications: Basic Principles of Deformity Correction; A Biomechanical Approach to Posterior Spinal Instrumentation; Sacropelvic Fixation in Spinal Deformity; Neurological Injury Complicating Surgery; Postoperative Complications; Revision Surgery.
XV. Pediatric Spine: Etiology of Scoliosis; Idiopathic Scoliosis: Prevalence and Natural History; Congenital Scoliosis and Kyphosis; Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders of the Child's Spine; The Spine in Skeletal Syndromes and Dysplasias; Neuromuscular Scoliosis; Pediatric Spine Trauma; Spine Tumors in Childhood and Adolescence.
XVI. Deformities: Idiopathic Scoliosis: General Considerations, Natural History and...; Bracing in Scoliosis; Spinal Deformities Associated with Metabolic Diseases; Perioperative Blood and Blood Product Management for Spinal...; Scheurmann Kyphosis; Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis; Intraoperative and Immediate Postoperative Complications.

 
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