内容简介：
Featuring an impressive array of medical and surgical perspectives, this valuable reference addresses the main topics of spinal disease and its management, from anatomy and physiology to neurology and rheumatology. With contributions from over 40 established clinicians and pioneering researchers, Spinal Cord Diseases describes developmental abnormalities, including surgical intervention of myelodysplasia and dysraphism stresses accurate diagnosis of degenerative spinal column disease outlines the surgical removal of intramedullary tumors of the spinal cord, offering major improvements for prognosis charts progress in the diagnosis and treatment of benign tumors examines the latest advances in managing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, demyelination, and inflammatory diseases details acute treatment for various levels of trauma to the spinal cord, including postinjury syrinx highlights medical management of bacterial and HIV infections analyzes the sexual aspects of spinal cord problems as well as chronic pain and the terminal care of patients estimates the epidemiological frequency and financial cost of spinal cord injuries and more!