47 Strategies to Minimize Invasiveness and Optimize Success: OC Fusion Bernhard Meyer and Sandro M. Krieg Summary OC fusion could be one of the most complex and incapacitating procedures in…
22 Posterior Muscle Sparing Approaches for Decompression, Laminoplasty, and Laminectomy Lionel N. Metz, Martin H. Pham, Kevin M. Hwang, and K. Daniel Riew Summary Laminoplasty is a powerful operation for…
20 Posterior Cervical Facet Cages DTRAX Melissa Meyer, John B. Ferraro, and Rahul V. Shah Summary DTRAX posterior cervical facet cages provide a minimally invasive, tissue sparing approach to performing…
44 Percutaneous Pedicle Screw Fixation and MISS SI Joint Fusion Greg Anderson Summary The appropiate radiological identification of the pedicles and sacroilliac joint is key in every lumbosacral instrumentation case….
34 Percutaneous Full-Endoscopic Interlaminar Approach for Lumbar Pathologies: Disc Herniation and Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Javier Quillo-Olvera and Jin-Sung Luke Kim Summary Recently, full-endoscopic techniques have emerged as a minimally invasive…
32 Unilateral Lumbar Approach for Over-the-Top Bilateral Decompression Franziska C. Heider, Andreas Korge, and H. Michael Mayer Summary The main goal is a bilateral microsurgical decompression of the cauda equina…
52 Lifestyle Medicine: Optimizing Recovery Following MIS of the Spine Jaspal Ricky Singh and Kyle F. Worell Summary Lifestyle medicine is the use of evidence-based therapeutic approaches utilizing exercise, nutrition,…
19 Unilateral Tubular Over-the-Top Cervical Laminectomy for Cervical Stenosis Robert Nicholas Hernandez, Sergio Soriano-Solis, and José-Antonio Soriano-Sánchez Summary Unilateral Tubular Over-the-Top Cervical Laminectomy for Cervical Stenosis addresses the technical aspects…
41 Maximum Access Surgery Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (MAS PLIF) Joel Martin, Laura Hein, Pavan S. Upadhyayula, Vincent Cheung, and William Taylor Summary This chapter describes a brief history of…
37 LLIF T12/L1-L2 Cristiano Magalhães Menezes and Érica Godinho Menezes Summary The lateral transpsoas approach to the T12/L1-L2 (thoracolumbar junction) level requires careful management of the diaphragm, the pleura and…
