Prove it! Evidence-based analysis of com mon spine practice

Prove It! Evidence-Based Analysis of Common Spine Practice offers spine surgeons detailed guidance in using the principles of evidence-based medicine in treatment decisions. The book presents a unique collection of 31 case studies in which noted experts review a patient's signs and symptoms and relevant images to determine the best-fitting diagnosis and then to develop a treatment plan based on the best available published evidence. The case-based approach allows the reader to see how evidence-based medicine can be directly and practically applied to the care of patients with a variety of disorders.

Case 1: Cervical Stenosis with Multiple Subluxations
Terrence T. Crowder and Harry N. Herkowitz

Case 2: Multilevel Cervical Stenosis with Straight Spine
Christopher C. Harrod, Andrew P. White, and Kevin McGuire

Case 3: Cervical Disc Disease with Radiculopathy
John Rhee

Case 4: Cervical Degeneration with C8 Radiculopathy
Chintan Sampat and David H. Kim

Case 5: Two-Level Degeneration and Radiculopathy
Amy Marcini, Kevin J. McGuire, and Andrew P. White

Case 6: Cervical Stenosis with Kyphosis
John Street and Brian Lenehan

Case 7: L5-S1 Discitis and Osteomyelitis
Vincent J. Devlin, Paul Anderson, and Christopher Hume

Case 8: Rheumatoid Arthritis of the Cervical Spine
Sean Comstock and Marcel F. Dvorak

Case 9: Cervical Epidural Abscess
Yu-Po Lee, Hossein Ghofrani, and Steven R. Garfin

Case 10: Metastatic Prostate Tumor with Fracture at L3
Ilya Laufer, Eric Lis, and Mark Bilsky

Case 11: Thoracic Epidural Tumor
John Chi

Case 12: L1 Fracture with Paraplegia
Todd McCall, Daniel Fassett, Harsh Parikh, and Alexander Vaccaro

Case 13: C4 Fracture
John C. France

Case 14: Metastatic Renal Tumor of L4 After Failed Kyphoplasty
Gregory S. McLoughlin and Daryl R. Fourney

Case 15: Thoracolumbar Flexion-Distraction Injury
Charles Fisher

Case 16: Metastatic Tumor of the Cervical Spine
Joseph H. Schwab

Case 17: Thoracolumbar Burst Fracture
Chris Bailey

Case 18: Single-Level Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis with Stenosis

Case 19: Single-Level Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis with Stenosis II
Don Young Park and Eugene Carragee

Case 20: Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis with Multi-level Stenosis I
Colin Harris and Michael J. Vives

Case 21: Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis with Multi-level Stenosis
John Dimar

Case 22: L5-S1 Slip and Herniation
William C. Waters, III

Case 23: L5-S1 Herniation
Andrew J. Schoenfeld

Case 24: Isthmic Spondylolisthesis
Harel Arzi and Paul M. Arnold

Case 25: Two-Level Degenerative Slip with Stenosis
Raja Rampersand and Oma Persaud

Case 26: Low Back Pain with Degenerative Disc Disease
Daniel K. Resnick

Case 27: Recurrent Disc Herniation
David Kaye and Alok D. Sharan

Case 28: Multilevel Degeneration with Back and Leg Pain
Eeric Truumees

Case 29: Thoracic Stenosis
Shiveindra Jeyamohan, Ciro G. Randazzo, and James Harrop

Case 30: Adult Scoliosis I
Peter G. Passias, Gang Li, and Kirkham B. Wood

Case 31: Adult Scoliosis II
Steven Glassman and Leah Carreon