Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Don't miss it! The second, completely revised and expanded edition of the successful surgical manual on minimally invasive spine surgery includes 51 chapters (including more than 20 new chapters) covering all current minimally invasive techniques in spine surgery. A complete survey of all microsurgical and endoscopic techniques with a special focus on semi-invasive injection techniques for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in low back pain is given. The clear chapter structure with terminology, history, surgical principles, advantages/disadvantages, indications, access principles, complications, and results facilitates navigation through the manual. Topics include the principles of microsurgical and endoscopic treatment, spinal navigation and computer-assisted surgery, minimally invasive reconstruction, fusion, dynamic stabilization in fractures, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, low back pain and deformities. The didactic presentation of surgical steps makes the reader familiar with all types of new minimally invasive techniques in clinical use or still in ongoing clinical trials such as minimally invasive spine arthroplasty.

General: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery.- Technologic Advances of Surgical Microscopes for Spine Surgery.- Spinal Microsurgery - A Short Introduction.- Microsurgical Instruments.- Operating Room Setup and Handling of the Microscope.- Computer Assisted Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery - State of the Art. Techniques: Cervical Spine: Odontoid: The Technique of Transoral Odontoidectomy.- Microsurgical Treatment of Odontoid Fractures. Disc Surgery / Decompression: Microsurgery of the Cervical Spine: The Anterior Approach.- Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy.- Functional Segmental Reconstruction with the Bryan Total Cervical DiscTM.- Microsurgical Total Cervical Disc Replacement. Microsurgical Posterior Approaches to the Cervical Spine. Microsurgical C1/2 stabilization. Thoracic/Thoraco-Lumbar Spine: General Techniques: The Microsurgical Anterior Approach to T5--T10 (Mini-TTA).- Microsurgical Anterior Approach to the Thoraco-Lumbar Junction.- Anatomic Principles of Thoracoscopic Spine Surgery.- Principles of Endoscopic Techniques in the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine.- Biomechanical Requirements in Minimally Invasive Spinal Fracture Treatment. Deformities: Thoracoscopic Approaches in Spinal Deformities and Trauma. Thoracoscopic Techniques in Spinal Deformities.- Mini-open Endoscopic Excision of Hemivertebrae.- Fractures: Thoracoscopic-Assisted Anterior Approach to Thoracolumbar Fractures.- Minimal Invasive but Open Approach to the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine.- Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures.- Microsurgical Open Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty.- Pecutaneous Vertebroplasty in Traumatic Fractures. Lumbar Spine: Low Back Pain: Semi-Invasive Procedures for Low Back Pain and Disc Herniation. Disc: Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET).- Microtherapy In Low Back Pain.- Principles of Microsurgical Discectomy in Lumbar Disc Herniations.- The Microsurgical Interlaminar, Paramedian Approach.- The translaminar approach.- The Lateral, Extraforaminal Approach.- Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy.- Microscope-assisted Percutaneous Technique as Minimally Invasive Approach to the Posterior Spine.- Arthroscopic and Endoscopic Spinal Surgery via a Posterolateral Approach.- The Endoscopic Interlaminar Approach.- Outpatient Microsurgical Lumbar Discectomy and Microdecompression Laminoplasty. Disc Reconstruction: Nucleus Reconstruction by Autologeous Chondrocyte Transplantation.- Autologous Disc Chondrocyte Transplantation.- The ALPA Approach for Minimal Invasive Nucleus Pulposus Replacement. Mini-open Midline Accesses for Lumbar Total Disc Replacement. Spinal Stenosis: Microsurgical Decompression of Acquired (Degenerative) Central and Lateral Spinal Canal Stenosis. Fusion: Microsurgical Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (MINIALIF) - The Retroperitoneal Approach to L2/3, L3/4, and L4/5.- Microsurgical Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: The Transperitoneal Approach to L5/S1.- Minimal invasive 360
Lumbar Fusion.- The Anterior Extraperitoneal Video-Assisted Approach to the Lumbar Spine. Dynamic Stabilization: Minimally invasive Dynamic Stabilization of the Lumbar Motion Segment with an Interspinous Implant.- Technical and Anatomical Considerations for the Placement of a Posterior Interspinous Stabilizer. -Elastic Microsurgical Stabilization with Posterior Shock Absorber.