Cervical -- Cervical Spinal Stability and Decision Making -- Clearing the Cervical Spine -- Imaging of Spinal Trauma -- Immunological Response to Spinal Cord Injury: Impact on the Timing of Spine Fixation -- The Role of Orthosis in Spinal Injury -- The Halovest -- Direct Anterior Screw Fixation of Odontoid Fractures -- Occiput-Cervical Fixation -- C1-2 Fixation: Transarticular Screws -- C1–2 Fixation: Lateral Mass/Pars Screw-Rod Fixation -- Closed Reduction of Unilateral and Bilateral Facet Dislocations -- Cervical Open Posterior Reduction of Facet Dislocation -- Open Anterior Reduction of Cervical Facet Dislocation -- Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion for Traumatic Disc Herniation -- Posterior Cervical Fusion for Trauma -- Corpectomy for Burst Fracture -- Posterior Pedicle Screw Fixation -- Thoracic -- Thoracic Spinal Stability: Decision Making -- Anterior Corpectomy with Fixation, Thoracic -- Kyphoplasty, Osteoporotic and Traumatic -- Costotransversectomy -- Thoracolumbar and Lumbar -- Lumbar Spinal Stability: Decision Making -- Posterior Instrumentation for Thoracolumbar and Lumbar Fracture Dislocation -- Posterior Decompression Technique for Thoracolumbar Burst Fracture -- Anterior Treatment of Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures -- Anterior and Posterior Surgery and Fixation for Burst Fractures -- Percutaneous/Minimally Invasive Treatment for Thoracolumbar Fractures -- Sacral -- Surgical Stabilization Options for Fractures and Fracture-Dislocations at the Lumbosacral Junction and for Posterior Pelvic Ring Reconstruction -- Sacral Screw Fixation -- Percutaneous Placement of Iliosacral Screws -- Iliac Fixation in Trauma -- Special Circumstances -- Minimally Invasive Treatment for Ankylosing Spondylitis and DISH Thoracolumbar Fractures -- Surgical Treatment of Thoracic or Thoracolumbar Fractures of Ankylosing Spondylitis or Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) -- Traumatic Dural Tears -- Civilian Gunshot Injury to the Spine -- Complications in Spine Surgery -- Erratum to: Posterior Cervical Fusion for Trauma.

Spinal surgeons treat spinal trauma patients on a regular basis in their hospital emergency rooms. This well-illustrated, hands-on guide to the many surgical techniques required in these situations provides a solid basis for the management of spinal trauma.