Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Lumbar Spine

Minimally or noninvasive surgical techniques have profoundly changed the way surgeons operate today. The possibility of
offering the patient a selection of spinal surgical procedures, based on mediating the consequences of surgery while
maximizing the results of the procedure has resulted in a growing interest in minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS).
MISS is a multidisciplinary subject involving the orthopedic surgeon, neurosurgeon, radiologists, anesthesiologists and
pain management specialists, each of which needs to act in unison to maximize the benefit to the patient.


Table of Contents
Anesthesia and Perioperative Care in MISS.
- Diagnostic imaging of degenerative spine diseases: Technical approach.
- Radiofrequency Lumbar Facet Joint Denervation.
- Percutaneous treatment in lumbar disc herniation.
- Assessment and Selection of the Appropriate Individualized Technique for Endoscopic Lumbar Disc Surgery.
- Interspinous devices: State of the Art
- Biomechanics.
- Less
-invasive decompression and posterolateral fusion using interlaminar lumbar instrumented fusion (ILIF) with or without
supplemental transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF).
- Minimal invasive Posterior Dynamic Stabilization: A new treatment option for disc degeneration
- Yoda.
- Percutaneous pedicle screws in the lumbar spine.
- Minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery: current status.
- Lumbar Nucleus Replacement.- Vertebral body augmentation in osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.
- The Sacroiliac Joint: A Minimally Invasive Approach.
- Image- and Robotic Guidance in Spine Surgery.
- Bone substitution in spine fusion: the past, the present, the future.
- Microsurgical approach for the treatment of juxtafacet synovial cysts of the lumbar spine.