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Baaj, Ali A. et al.: 2025 Handbook of Spine Surgery DOI: 10.1055/b-0045-209417
I: Anatomy

3 Thoracic Spine

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Editors: Baaj, Ali A.; Mummaneni, Praveen V.; Uribe, Juan S.; Vaccaro, Alexander R.; Greenberg, Mark S.

Authors: Aabedi, Alexander; Abd-El-Barr, Muhammad M.; Adindu, Ebubechi; Agarwal, Nitin; Aguilar-Salinas, Pedro; Alakkad, Salah A.; Alan, Nima; Alanay, Ahmet; Alikhani, Puya; Ammerman, Samuel; Angelov, Ivan; Avila, Mauricio J.; Baeesa, Saleh; Baldwin, Edward L.; Barrera-Arreola, Michelle; Benet, Arnau; Bergin, Stephen M.; Boddapati, Venkat; Bono, Christopher M.; Canseco, Jose A.; Carr, Matthew T.; Chalif, Eric; Chalif, Joshua; Chamberlin, Kelly; Chan, Andrew K.; Chang, Steve W.; Chou, Dean; Chryssikos, Timothy; Chua, Melissa M. J.; Jr, John Clayton Clohisy; Connolly, Ian David; Coumans, Jean-Valery; Coury, Josephine; Dahdaleh, Nader S.; Demirci, Nuri; Deshpande, Rajakumar V.; Diwan, Ashish D.; Elsayed, Galal A.; Emmerich, Juan; Farber, S. Harrison; Feger, Mark A.; Fiani, Brian; Florence, TJ; Fridley, Jared; Gadsden, Jeff; Galgano, Michael; Gandía, Marisa; Ghobrial, George M.; Gokaslan, Ziya; Gonzalez, Glenn A.; Goodwin, C. Rory; Goodwin, Matthew L.; Greenfield, Jeffrey P.; Grossbach, Andrew J.; Gupta, Dhanesh K.; Hadzipasic, Muhamed; Hajtovic, Sabastian; , Colin B. Harris,; Harrop, James S.; Heard, Jeremy C.; Hersh, Andrew M.; Hofstetter, Christoph; Horak, Holli A.; Hou, Brian Q.; Houshiemy, Mohamad Nabih El; Hussein, Amna; Hwang, Steven W.; Jamieson, Alysha; Jamshidi, Aria; Jea, Andrew; Judy, Brendan F.; K., Chaitanya Prabhu; Kawtharani, Sarah; Keister, Alexander; Kepler, Christopher K.; Khan, Asham; Kia, Cameron; Kim, Han Jo; Klineberg, Eric; Kwan, Kevin; Lavadi, Raj Swaroop; Le, Hai; Lee, Joon Y.; Lee, Yunsoo; Lenke, Lawrence G.; Letchuman, Vijay; Levi, Allan D.; Li, Anran; Lu, Yi; Maalouly, Joseph; Macki, Mohamed; Maghrabi, Yazid; Manzano, Glen R.; Marca, Frank La; Menezes, Cristiano Magalhães; Mitha, Alim P.; Molina, Camilo A.; Momin, Eric; Moussalem, Charbel; Noureldine, Mohammad Hassan A.; Orenday-Barraza, Jose Manuel; P., Murali Krishna; Park, Paul; Patel, Kamakshi; Patel, Karan S.; Pathinathan, Kalaventhan; Penumaka, Anirudh; Phillips, Frank M.; Phusoongnern, Woralux; Piazza, Martin G.; Pollina, John; Poonia, Dhiraj Kumar; Quiceno, Esteban; Quillo-Olvera, Javier; Quillo-Reséndiz, Javier; Rao, Prashanth J.; Rasouli, Jonathan J.; Rehman, Azeem A.; Robinson, Leslie; Ruiz-Cardozo, Miguel A.; Saifi, Comron; Saigal, Rajiv; Salomão Junior, Marlus Sérgio Borges; Samdani, Amer F.; Schroeder, Gregory D.; Schwartz, Theodore H.; Sedney, Cara; Shankar, Ganesh M.; Shaw, Jeremy D.; Shen, Yong; Shin, John H.; Singleton, Quante; Sivaganesan, Ahilan; Sivakanthan, Sananthan; Smith, Zachary A.; Soliman, Mohamed A. R.; Sorour, Omar; Steinberger, Jeremy; Stephens, Byron F.; Stephens, Mark; Stippler, Martina; Sunna, Tarek P.; Sykes, David A.W.; Tang, Melissa Yunting; Than, Khoi D.; Theodore, Nicholas; Tosi, Umberto; Unterberger, Ansley; Uschold, Timothy D.; Valdivia, Juan M.; Vaughan, Wilson E.; Head of Orthopedics; Head of Spine Surgery, Spine Surgery Group, Cajuru Hospital, Catholic University of Parana, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, Emiliano Vialle,; Vignolles-Jeong, Joshua; Villeneuve, Lance; Viñuela-Prieto, Jose Manuel; Vivas, Andrew C.; Voort, Wyatt D. Vander; Waddell, W. Hunter; Wang, Michael Y.; Whaley, James D.; White, Alexandra J.; White, Michael D.; Wick, Joseph; Williamson, Theresa; Wolinsky, Jean-Paul; Xiong, Grace X.; Yahanda, Alexander T.; Yang, Michael J.; Yilgor, Caglar; Yucekul, Altug; Yuk, Frank J.; Zaidi, Hasan; Zhao, Xiaochun; Zhou, James J.

Title: Handbook of Spine Surgery

Print ISBN: 9781684205547; Online ISBN: 9781684206797; Book DOI: 10.1055/b000001054

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Subjects: Neurosurgery

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Summary

The thoracic anatomy varies widely based upon location. Furthermore, given the limited vascular supply, this area of the spinal cord can be unforgiving to manipulation. A thorough anatomic understanding is important for performing a successful surgery.

Key words

thoracic - thoracic - artery of Adamkiewicz - ligamentous anatomy
 
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