Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Overview of vertebral injuries
- 2 Anatomic considerations
- 3 Biomechanical considerations
- 4 Imaging of vertebral trauma I: indications and controversies
- 5 Imaging of vertebral trauma II: radiography, computed tomography, and myelography
- 6 Imaging of vertebral trauma III: magnetic resonance imaging
- 7 Mechanisms of injury and their “fingerprints”
- 8 Radiologic “footprints” of vertebral injury: the ABCS
- 9 Vertebral injuries in children
- 10 Vertebral stability and instability
- 11 Normal variants and pseudofractures
- Index
Preface to the Second Edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Overview of vertebral injuries
- 2 Anatomic considerations
- 3 Biomechanical considerations
- 4 Imaging of vertebral trauma I: indications and controversies
- 5 Imaging of vertebral trauma II: radiography, computed tomography, and myelography
- 6 Imaging of vertebral trauma III: magnetic resonance imaging
- 7 Mechanisms of injury and their “fingerprints”
- 8 Radiologic “footprints” of vertebral injury: the ABCS
- 9 Vertebral injuries in children
- 10 Vertebral stability and instability
- 11 Normal variants and pseudofractures
- Index
Summary
Since the publication of the first edition of Imaging of Vertebral Trauma in 1988, major developments have been made in the evaluation of patients with suspected vertebral injury. Most of these have been in the realm of magnetic resonance imaging, but new reports have also given us a better understanding of some important anatomic relationships. There is a greater awareness of the subtle signs of injury, and there has been a reassessment of exactly how “significant” many of them may be. The current emphasis on health care reform and cost containment has prompted a reassessment of indications for radiography and computerized imaging of the vertebral column.
The first edition dealt mainly with plain film radiography supplemented with polydirectional or computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. This edition continues that focus by addressing some of the new issues that have surfaced since 1988. In addition, two contributing authors have written chapters. Dr. Andrew L. Goldberg, a neuroradiologic colleague of mine at Allegheny General Hospital, has written an indepth review of the use of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of vertebral and spinal cord injuries. Dr. Stanley P. Bohrer, a musculoskeletal radiologist at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, has written a chapter on the use of flexion and extension radiographs in patients with suspected ligamentous injuries in the cervical region. A third new chapter deals with the biomechanics of the vertebral column and biomechanical considerations in vertebral injury.
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- Imaging of Vertebral Trauma , pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011