SPINE SURGERY Edited by Kook Jin Chung Spine Surgery Edited by Kook Jin Chung Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. As for readers, this license allows users to download, copy and build upon published chapters even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Sandra Bakic Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published March, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Spine Surgery, Edited by Kook Jin Chung p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0469-8 Contents Preface IX Part 1 Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures 1 Chapter 1 Unilateral Transpedicular Balloon Kyphoplasty for the Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fracture 3 Kyoung-Suok Cho and Sang-Bok Lee Chapter 2 Osteoporotic Verterbal Compression Fractures 15 Kook Jin Chung Chapter 3 Nonunion of Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures: Clinical Characteristics and Surgical Treatment 21 Genlin Wang and Huilin Yang Chapter 4 The Research on Bolster for Self-Replacement Combined with Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in Treatment of Vertebral Compression Fractures 29 Mo Wen, Cheng Shaodan and Hu Zhijun Part 2 Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery 41 Chapter 5 Minimally Invasive Extreme Lateral Trans-Psoas Approach to the Lumbar Spine: Applications and Techniques 43 Brian Hood and Steven Vanni Chapter 6 The Minimally Invasive Retroperitoneal Transpsoas Approach 79 Tien V. Le and Juan S. Uribe Part 3 Surgical Approaches 97 Chapter 7 Anterior Approaches to Thoracic and Thoraco-Lumbar Spine 99 Aydın Nadir VI Contents Part 4 Cervical Spine 111 Chapter 8 Perforation Rates of Cervical Pedicle Screw Inserted from C3 to C6 - A Retrospective Analysis of 78 Patients over a Period 5 of 14 Years - 113 Jun Takahashi, Hiroki Hirabayashi, Hiroyuki Hashidate, Nobuhide Ogihara, Keijiro Mukaiyama, Syuugo Kuraishi, Masayuki Shimizu, Masashi Uehara and Hiroyuki Kato Chapter 9 General Description of Pediatric Acute Wryneck Condition 121 Alexander Gubin Part 5 Spinal Cord Injury 135 Chapter 10 Autologous Macrophages Genetically Modified by Ex Vivo Electroporation and Inserted by Lumbar Puncture Migrate and Concentrate in Damaged Spinal Cord Tissue: A Safe and Easy Gene Transfer Method for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury 137 Tadanori Ogata, Tadao Morino, Hideki Horiuchi, Masayuki Hino, Gotaro Yamaoka and Hiromasa Miura Preface “Spine Surgery” is an authoritative and didactic textbook on the various fields of spine. It is written by many authors, internationally honorable experts to share their opinions with you. The chapters cover from anatomy of spine, spinal imaging technique, biology of spine, bone graft substitute, minimally invasive spinal surgery to even spinal deformity. It has many up to date results to help readers including university graduate students, medical instrumentation developers, and medical professionals including orthopaedic and neurosurgeons, rehabilitative professionals. The readers are provided with precious information and valuable guide in your daily practice. Dr. Kook Jin Chung Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, College of Medicine, Hallym University, South Korea . SPINE SURGERY Edited by Kook Jin Chung Spine Surgery Edited by Kook Jin Chung Published by InTech Janeza. hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Spine Surgery, Edited by Kook Jin Chung p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0469-8 Contents