© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Michael Y. Wang, Andrew A. Sama and Juan S. Uribe (eds.)Lateral Access Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery10.1007/978-3-319-28320-3_4 4. Costs and Economic Implications Matthew D. Alvin1, 2, Daniel Lubelski2, 3, Thomas E. Mroz4 and Michael P. Steinmetz5 (1) Case Western…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Michael Y. Wang, Andrew A. Sama and Juan S. Uribe (eds.)Lateral Access Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery10.1007/978-3-319-28320-3_3 3. Physiologic Benefits and Impacts of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeries Gisela Murray1, Chun-Po Yen1 and Juan S. Uribe2 (1)…
Fig. 10.1 This image shows the setup for MEPs and how the myogenic responses appear (Adapted with permission from Fig. 6, Schmidek and Sweet’s Neurosurgical Operative Techniques, 6th ed. Chap….
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Michael Y. Wang, Andrew A. Sama and Juan S. Uribe (eds.)Lateral Access Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery10.1007/978-3-319-28320-3_5 5. Workup and Diagnostic Testing William D. LongIII1 , Federico P. Girardi1 and Andrew A. Sama2 (1) Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special…
Author Procedure LOE Control Tormenti et al. [36] X, TLIF III PLF PLF III X, TLIF Isaacs et al. [32] XLIF, L5S1 II – Phillips et al. [37] XLIF, L5S1…
Fig. 11.1 Illustrations of coaxial technique for placing balloon guiding catheter. (a) Bovine-type left common carotid artery origin. (b) The origin of the left common carotid artery is catheterized using…
Fig. 3.1 Early ischemic CT signs. Noncontrast CT images show early ischemic changes, loss of insular ribbon at the right side (a), loss of lentiform nucleus at the left side…
Fig. 10.1 Illustration (a) of FAST, forced arterial suction thrombectomy, in a patient with internal carotid artery terminus occlusion. Photograph (b) shows that the 20 or 50 mL syringe is…
Type of infarct Diagnosis Cerebral infarction If a CT scan performed within 28 days of symptom onset shows an area of low attenuation, no relevant abnormality or an area of…
Fig. 12.1 Schematic illustrations of (a) embolic occlusion and (b) in situ thrombo-occlusion due to intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis Fig. 12.2 A 56-year-old man presenting with NIHSS score of 15. (a)…
