Atlas of Spine Injection Review

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(More customer reviews)Images were not as sharp as Fenton's book, but I felt this atlas showed a lot of images of injections where the dye didn't always go where you wanted it to go at first, then later showed what it should have looked like.This is nice as so many other atlases, like Fenton's, look like the injections were all done on perfect 20 year old spines.Ialso liked this as it was certainly more of a step-by-step approach than other atlases...and as such showed yet another way to perform certain spinal injections.
It isn't perfect and I probably would have been more apt to give it a 3.5 stars, but in all fairness, at the time it was originally published, it deserved the 4 star rating.
Would buy it again just to have in the library...again, it's the only atlas that I have seen out of several I have looked at or owned that did show 'misplaced' dye images, which is nice to see (and hopefully avoid) in one's practice.

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Product Description:
This practical and highly accessible new atlas illustrates the most commonly performed radiographically directed diagnostic and therapeutic spinal procedures with more than 550 images. Each chapter follows the same consistent format-beginning with a definition and review of the literature and progressing through the rationale for the procedure, the required equipment and supplies, and coverage of informed consent issues and patient selection to the how-tos of the procedure. The procedures are described with easy-to-follow tables. Skeletal radiographs demonstrating the pertinent anatomy on actual specimens are followed by multiple examples of both easy and challenging cases.
* Covers a wide range of procedures including epidural steroid injection - nerve root blocks - sacroiliac joint injections - facet joint procedures - discography - percutaneous needle biopsy - kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty - intradiscal electrothermal annuloplasty (IDET) and myelography.
* Offers clear photographs of injection sites to ensure proper needle placement
* Addresses commonly encountered pitfalls and complications, concerns not addressed in other texts.
* Shows how to determine which back structure is generating pain and which injection site will provide relief.
* Discusses procedures based on carefully analyzed utility of state-of-the-art-techniques in actual clinical practice
* Presents an extensive review of the literature and discusses the theoretical background and assumptions related to scientific and technical methodology.