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Imaging of the Postoperative Spine: Cages, Prostheses, and Instrumentation

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Spinal Imaging

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

Abstract

Spinal instrumentation has undergone tremendous evolution in the more than 125 years since the first reported internal fixation of the spine in 1888 by B. F. Wilkins, who reduced a dislocated T12-L1 vertebrae by fixing a wire with carbonized silver suture passed around the pedicles of the T12 and L1 vertebrae (Cotler 1999). In 1911 Albee and Hibbs, at two different institutions in New York, performed the first biological fusion procedures of the spine by using autogenous bone graft (Albee 1911; Hibbs 1911). Between these historical events, one of the most significant technological advances to impact the development of spinal instrumentation (and medicine in general) took place: William Roentgen’s discovery of X-ray imaging in 1895. Since these early events, the two landmark developments in spinal instrumentation of the past century were the interspinous wiring technique described by Rogers in the early 1940s and the rod/hook instrumentation system of Harrington for treatment of postpoliomyelitis scoliosis in the 1950s (Benzel 1994).

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  1. University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Room 3740, 1200 N. State Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA

    Paul E. Kim MD (Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology)

  2. Division of Neuroradiology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Room 3740, 1200 N. State Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA

    Chi Shing Zee MD (Professor of Radiology, Chief)

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    Johan W. M. Van Goethem MD, PhD , Luc van den Hauwe MD  & Paul M. Parizel MD, PhD ,  & 

  2. Department of Radiology, Algemeen Ziekenhuis Nikolaas, Moerlandstraat 1, 9100, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

    Johan W. M. Van Goethem MD, PhD

  3. Department of Radiology, AZ KLINA, Augustijnslei 100, 2930, Brasschaat, Belgium

    Luc van den Hauwe MD

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Kim, P.E., Zee, C.S. (2007). Imaging of the Postoperative Spine: Cages, Prostheses, and Instrumentation. In: Van Goethem, J.W.M., van den Hauwe, L., Parizel, P.M. (eds) Spinal Imaging. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68483-1_17

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