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The Failed Spine Surgery Patient: Evaluation, Imaging and Management

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This well-arranged book is packed with contributions from eminent spine surgeons ranging from Drs Dreyer, An, Karaikovic & Lenke to Andersson, Albert, DeWald, Bridwell and Gaines. The two editors, leaders in the field of spine surgery themselves, have put together a useful combination of important issues in failed back surgery, implications of failure, clinical & diagnostic approaches and hints on surgical salvage of complicated spine procedures. There is adequate study of the factors leading to failed surgery and many tips on avoiding such complications.

Written in a prose that avoids stifling-academia and over-technicality , the text delivers much advice gained from years of collective surgical experience. Many of the contributors cite well-known peer-reviewed audits, strengthening the value of their opinion.

Notable omissions are issues on disc arthroplasty complications, on sacral insufficency in long instrumented spines and on problems using bone graft substitutes. Sufficient power of analysis must be available through an appropriate pool of patients, a trend of practice and a period of time before these current issues may be discussed and I would expect them to be featured in the next edition.