This concise textbook covers the full spectrum of spine surgery-related topics in a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow, readily accessible format. Addressing trauma, deformity, degeneration, oncology and infections, both in pediatric and adult patients, it provides a broad overview of this complex surgical discipline.
Subdivided into four parts, each chapter exhaustively addresses a clinical problem, ranging from signs and symptoms, physical examination through differential diagnoses and classification to treatment options, possible complications and follow-ups.  In appendix the reader will find relevant classifications, indexes, questionnaires and quality of life assessments. Didactical videos complement the book illustrating essential basic spine surgery techniques in the daily practice.

Written by an international panel of experts this practical and handy guide is an invaluable tool for trainees of both orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery,spine fellows, and junior spine surgeons.

Part-1 Pediatric Spine Trauma

1. Pediatric cervical injuries
2. Thoracolumbar Spine Injuries in Children
3 Atlanto-axial (C1-C2) subluxation and dislocation
4  Spinal Cord Injury without Radiographic Abnormality
Part-2 Adult Spine Trauma
5 Upper cervical injuries
6 Sub-axial cervical spine injurie
7 Thoracolumbar injuries
9 Spinal cord injury and related conditions
10 Osteoporotic fractures
Part-3 Pediatric Spine Pathology
11 Back pain in children
12 Congenital scoliosis
13 Early onset idiopathic scoliosis
14 Syndromic scoliosis
15 Early onset neuromuscular scoliosis
16 Idiopathic scoliosis: gebe
17 Progression risk of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis during puberty and natural history
18 Conservative Treatment for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
19 Determination of the fusion levels in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
20 Late onset neuromuscular scoliosis
21 Postural kyphosis
22 Scheuermann Disease
23 Cervical Kyphosis in Neurofibromatosis type I
24 Congenital kyphosis
25 Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis
26 Disc Bulging and Herniation in Children and Adolescents
27 Schmorl's nodes
28 Congenital Torticollis (torticollis not related to trauma)
29 Klippel Feil Syndrome
30 Chiari malformation
31 Spinal dysraphism
32 Sacralization of the 5th Lumbar Vertebra
33 Osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma
34 Osteochondroma
35 Eosinophilic Granuloma (Vertebra Plana)
36 Medulloblastoma and other seeding tumors
37 Spinal astrocytoma
38 Osteosarcoma
39 Ewing sarcoma
40 Discitis in Pediatric spine
Part-4 Adult Spine Pathology
41 Back pain and its generators
42 Cervical degenerative disc disease (including cervical disc herniation)
43 Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM)
44 Thoracic disc herniation
45 Lumbar degenerative disc disease (including lumbar disc herniation)
46 Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
47 Degenerative instability
48 Neglected idiopathic scoliosis
49 De Novo deformity
50 Sagittal plane malalignment
51 Post-traumatic Kyhphosis
52 Post-infectious deformity
53 Paget's disease
54 Ankylosing disorders of the spine: AS and DISH
55 Vertebral Hemangioma
56 Aneurismal bone cyst
57 Giant cell tumor
58 Spinal Meningioma
59 Spinal Nerve Sheath Tumor
60 Spinal Ependymoma
61 Plasmacytoma
62 Chordoma
63 Metastatic lesions of spine
64 Tuberculosis of spine
65 Pyogenic spondylodiscitis
66 Post-surgical spinal infection.