Download or read book Image-Guided Spine Interventions, an Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics written by John M. Mathis and published by Saunders. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Neuroimaging Clinics focuses on these minimally invasive, image-guided therapies. It includes guidelines for patient assessment and selection, choices of pharmaceuticals and materials commonly used, as well as, advice from noted experts about complication avoidance. Common procedures such as biopsy, epidural steroid injection and vertebroplasty (or balloon assisted vertebroplasty) are discussed. Newer procedures, such as sacroplasty, synovial cyst rupture, spinal cord stimulators, neurolysis, percutaneous discectomy, and minimally invasive treatment of spinal stenosis, are introduced.