The Resident's Guide to Spine Surgery

358 Pages·2020·8.537 MB·English

by  Joseph R. O'Brien, S. Bobby Kalantar, Doniel Drazin, Faheem A. Sandhu

The Resident’s Guide
to Spine Surgery
Joseph R. O’Brien
S. Bobby Kalantar
Doniel Drazin
Faheem A. Sandhu
Editors
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The Resident’s Guide to Spine Surgery
Joseph R. O’Brien • S. Bobby Kalantar
Doniel Drazin • Faheem A. Sandhu
Editors
The Resident’s Guide
to Spine Surgery
Editors
Joseph R. O’Brien, MD, MPH S. Bobby Kalantar, MD
Washington Spine & Scoliosis Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Institute at OrthoBethesda MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Bethesda, MD Washington, DC
USA USA
Doniel Drazin, MD Faheem A. Sandhu, MD, PhD
Pacific Northwest University Department of Neurosurgery
of Health Sciences MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Yakima, WA Washington, DC
USA USA
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Preface
Spine surgery in 2019 is more advanced than ever. As a multidisciplinary field, it
draws from the expertise of orthopaedic surgeons and neurosurgeons. Additionally,
the advances in minimally invasive techniques have added a layer of complexity.
For residents in either specialty, it can be a daunting task to learn all of the pro-
cedures in a short period of time. This book has been assembled by a group of
experts with a long tradition of educating residents. The overarching goal has been
to create a concise guide to each procedure and make it “learnable”. For both ortho-
paedic and neurological resident surgeons, this book will be a guide to acquire the
requisite skills in spine surgery.
Bethesda, MD, USA Joseph R. O’Brien, MD, MPH

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Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge my co-editors and Claire van Ekdom for their work
over the last 2 years in preparing this text book. In particular, Claire has been
instrumental in organizing the entire textbook. Without their collective effort, this
book would not have been possible. I would also like to thank my family (Janet,
Brad and Alex) for their love and support while I focused on this project.
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Contents
1 Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Crystal Adams, Fadi Sweiss, Michelle Feinberg,
and Jonathan H. Sherman
2 Cervical Corpectomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Gregory Callanan, Ra’ Kerry Rahman, and Kris Radcliff
3 Cervical Disc Arthroplasty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Blake M. Bodendorfer, Ashley E. MacConnell,
and S. Babak Kalantar
4 Posterior Cervical Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Joseph Rabe
5 Posterior Cervical Fusion Surgery: Occiput to C2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
R. Tushar Jha and Faheem A. Sandhu
6 Posterior Cervical Laminectomy and Fusion Surgery C3-C7 . . . . . . 49
S. Tim Yoon and Chase Bennett
7 Cervical Laminoplasty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Ronen Blecher, Emre Yilmaz, and Jens R. Chapman
8 Minimally Invasive Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy
and Discectomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Joel Z. Passer, Shahin Manoochehri, and Bong-Soo Kim
9 Thoracic Posterior Instrumentation Without Scoliosis . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Dany Aouad and Oliver Tannous
10 Posterior Thoracic Instrumentation for Scoliosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Fred F. Mo, William D. Zelenty, and Daniel M. Dean
11 Anterior Thoracic Decompression and Fusion:
Open and Minimally Invasive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Jason Kappa, Jeffrey H. Weinreb, Warren Yu, and Joseph R. O’Brien
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12 Thoracic Corpectomy: Indications and Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Steven Spitz and Anthony Conte
13 Thoracic Discectomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Jason E. McGowan, Islam Fayed, Marcelle Altschuler,
and Faheem A. Sandhu
14 Lumbar Microdiscectomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Ravi S. Nunna, Joshua T. Wewel, and John E. O’Toole
15 Approaching Far Lateral Disc Herniations:
The MIS Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Kyle Mueller and Amjad Anaizi
16 Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion
with Posterior Spinal Instrumentation and Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Sean K. Jandhyala and Saad B. Chaudhary
17 Lumbar Corpectomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Danny Lee, Ryan Lee, Jeffrey H. Weinreb, Uchechi Iweala,
and Joseph R. O’Brien
18 Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion . . . . 153
David Vincent and J. Alex Thomas
19 Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion L3–L4, L4–L5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Kurt E. Stoll, Daniel A. Marchwiany, Daniel L. Cavanaugh,
and Gurvinder S. Deol
20 Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion L1–2, L2–3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Ryan DenHaese, Clint Hill, and Jeffrey H. Weinreb
21 The Ante-Psoas Approach for Lumbar Interbody Fusion . . . . . . . . . 177
Melvin C. Makhni, James D. Lin, and Ronald A. Lehman Jr.
22 Anterior Lumbar Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Tiffany Grace Perry
23 Lumbar Total Disc Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Jeffrey H. Weinreb
24 Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Lumbar Scoliosis . . . . . . . . . . 201
Jeffrey H. Weinreb, Uchechi Iweala, Danny Lee, Warren Yu,
and Joseph R. O’Brien
25 Percutaneous Lumbar Screws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Brianna Lindsey Cohen, Karthik Madhavan,
and Michael Y. Wang
26 Percutaneous Iliac and S2AI Fixation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Lauren Matteini
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27 Anterior Odontoid Screws: Tips and Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Daniel Kerekes, A. Karim Ahmed, Camilo Molina,
C. Rory Goodwin, and Daniel M. Sciubba
28 Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak After Spine Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Michelle Feinberg, Kathleen Knudson, Jezer Martinez,
Crystal Adams, Fadi Sweiss, and Jonathan H. Sherman
29 Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Joint Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Cristian Gragnaniello, Fadi Sweiss, Crystal Adams,
and Jonathan H. Sherman
30 Treatment Considerations for Pyogenic Spinal Infection . . . . . . . . . . 253
Ehab Shiban and Bernhard Meyer
31 Revision Lumber Decompressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
David Hanscom and Peter Grunert
32 Revision Pedicle Screw Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Tiffany Grace Perry
33 Revision Strategies for Cervical Spine Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Anthony Conte and Faheem A. Sandhu
34 Metastatic Tumor Stabilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Rod J. Oskouian Jr., Emre Yilmaz, and Tamir A. Tawfik
35 Intradural Tumor Resection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Rod J. Oskouian Jr., Emre Yilmaz, Thomas O’Lynnger, and David
W. Newell
36 Cervical Spine Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Jens R. Chapman, Andrew S. Jack, and Wyatt L. Ramey
37 Anterior Approach to the Lumbosacral Spine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Joseph C. Babrowicz Jr.
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Contributors
Crystal Adams, MD Department of Neurological Surgery, The George Washington
University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
A. Karim Ahmed, BS Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Marcelle Altschuler, BS Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington,
DC, USA
Amjad Anaizi, MD Department of Neurosurgery, MedStar Georgetown University
Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
Dany Aouad, MD Saint Georges University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Joseph C. Babrowicz Jr., MD Department of Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical
Campus, Inova Vascular Surgery, Falls Church, VA, USA
Chase Bennett, MD Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Novant Brain and Spine Surgery,
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Ronen Blecher, MD, PhD Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Swedish Medical
Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Blake  M.  Bodendorfer, MD Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, MedStar
Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
Gregory Callanan, DO Orthopedic Surgery, Inspira Health Network, Vineland,
NJ, USA
Daniel L. Cavanaugh, MD Department of Orthopaedics, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Jens R. Chapman, MD Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Swedish Medical Center,
Seattle, WA, USA
Saad B. Chaudhary, MD Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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