As image-guided spine interventions have increasingly become a primary strategy for managing back pain, the tools and capabilities available to practitioners have grown significantly. This fully revised edition of Image-Guided Spine Interventions presents the latest procedures available to physicians who perform minimally invasive spine interventions. The comprehensive text covers the fundamentals-such as spine anatomy, procedural materials, and pharmacological requirements-along with chapters devoted to key topics such as discography, percutaneous descectomy, vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty, epidural steroid injections, and autonomic nerve blocks. Additionally, three new chapters are included in the Second Edition, covering pulsed radiofrequency procedures, sacroplasty, and spinal cord stimulation. Each technique is presented in a straightforward manner that allows the reader to effectively evaluate and implement new procedures. The text is further enhanced by nearly 200 images and illustrations.

"Here is the second, completely revised and updated edition of the successful practical guide to image-guided spine intervention. It contains revised text and images as well as new sections and chapters. The updated text thoroughly discusses both well-established and new interventions that are applied to the spine for the purpose of pain relief."

Spine Anatomy.- Materials Used in Image-Guided Spine Interventions.- Patient Evaluation and Criteria for Procedure Selection.- The Surgeon's Perspective: Image-Guided Therapy and Its Relationship to Conventional Surgical Management.- Image-Guided Percutaneous Spine Biopsy.- Discography.- Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy.- Epidural Injections for the Treatment of Spine-Related Pain Syndromes.- Pulsed Radiofrequency Procedures in Clinical Practice.- Facet Joint Injections and Sacroiliac Joint Injections.- Autonomic Nerve Blockade.- Percutaneous Vertebroplasty.- Implanted Drug Delivery Systems.- Endovascular Treatment of Vascular and Nonvascular Diseases of the Spine.- Kyphoplasty: Balloon Assisted Vertebroplasty.- Sacroplasty.- Spinal Cord Stimulation: Uses and Applications.