Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Techniques

Description:

This book includes operative videos and teaches the reader how to perform all currently available minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) techniques. Each chapter covers a MISS procedure and includes an introduction, indications and contraindications, surgical technique, pitfalls and pearls, discussion, conclusion, references, videos and figures. Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Techniques is aimed at spine surgeons who are interested in learning or improving their MISS skills.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

2. Microdiscectomy

3. Facetectomy

4. Parsectomy

5. Laminectomy

6. Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

7. Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion

8. Oblique Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: OLIF

9. Percutaneous Pedicle Screw/Rod Fixation

10. The Presacral Approach (AxiaLIF)

11. Percutaneous Facet Screws

12. Sacro-Iliac Joint Fusion

13. Lumbar Retroperitoneal Transpsoas Corpectomy

14. Thoracic Lateral Retropleural Discectomy

15. Percutaneous Thoracic Pedicle Screws

16. Thoracic Lateral Retropleural Corpectomy

17. Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy

18. Minimally Invasive Posterior Cervical Decompression

19. D-TRAX