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.

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Technological Advances of Surgical Microscopes for Spine Surgery
Spinal Microsurgery
Microsurgical Instruments
Operating Room Setup and Handling of Surgical Microscopes
Computer-assisted Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
Technique of Transoral Odontoidectomy
Microsurgical Treatment of Odontoid Fractures
Microsurgery of the Cervical Spine: The Anterior Approach
Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy (Microsurgical and Endoscopic)
Functional Segmental Reconstruction with the Bryan Cervical Disc Prosthesis
Microsurgical Total Cervical Disc Replacement
Microsurgical Posterior Approaches to the Cervical Spine
Microsurgical C1-2 Stabilization
Microsurgical Anterior Approach to T5-10 (Mini-TTA)
Microsurgical Anterior Approach to the Thoracolumbar Junction
Anatomic Principles of Thoracoscopic Spine Surgery
Principles of Endoscopic Techniques to the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine
Biomechanical Requirements in Minimally Invasive Spinal Fracture Treatment
Thoracoscopic Approaches in Spinal Deformities and Trauma
Thoracoscopic Techniques in Spinal Deformity
Mini-open Endoscopic Excision of Hemivertebrae
Thoracoscopically Assisted Anterior Approach to Thoracolumbar Fractures
A Minimally Invasive Open Approach for Reconstruction of the Anterior Column of the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine
Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures
Microsurgical Open Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty
Percutaneous Kyphoplasty in Traumatic Fractures
Interventional and Semi-invasive Procedures for Low Back Pain and Disc Herniation
Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy
Microtherapy in Low Back Pain
Principles of Microsurgical Discectomy in Lumbar Disc Herniations
The Microsurgical Interlaminar, ParamedianApproach
The Translaminar Approach
The Lateral, Extraforaminal Approach
Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy
Microscopically Assisted Percutaneous Technique as a Minimally Invasive Approach to the Posterior Spine
Arthroscopic and Endoscopic Spine Surgery via a Posterolateral Approach
The Full-endoscopic Interlaminar Approach for Lumbar Disc Herniations
Outpatient Microsurgical Lumbar Discectomy and Microdecompression Laminoplasty
Nucleus Reconstruction by Autologous Chondrocyte Transplantation
Autologous Disc Chondrocyte Transplantation
The ALPA Approach for Minimally Invasive Nucleus Pulposus Replacement
Mini-open Midline Accesses for Lumbar Total Disc Replacement
Microsurgical Decompression of Acquired (Degenerative) Central and Lateral Spinal Canal Stenosis
Microsurgical Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (Mini-ALIF): The Lateral Retroperitoneal Approach to L2/3, L3/4, and L4/5
Microsurgical Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (Mini-ALIF): The Transperitoneal Approach to L5/S1
Minimally Invasive 360° Lumbar Fusion
The Anterior Extraperitoneal Video-assisted Approach to the Lumbar Spine
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 a Posterior Shock Absorber.