Tender Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Techniques

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-71943-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 235 Seiten, eBook

This book includes operative videos and teaches the reader how to perform all currently available minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) techniques. Each chapter covers a MISS procedure and includes an introduction, indications and contraindications, surgical technique, pitfalls and pearls, discussion, conclusion, references, videos and figures.Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Techniques
 is aimed at spine surgeons who are interested in learning or improving their MISS skills.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tender, Gabriel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to minimally invasive spinal surgery techniques.- Lumbar discectomy.- Lumbar facetectomy.- Lumbar parsectomy.- Lumbar laminectomy.- TLIF (transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion).- XLIF (extreme lateral interbody fusion).- AxiaLIF (presacral L5-S1 fusion).- Percutaneous lumbar pedicle screw insertion.- Percutaneous lumbar facet screw insertion.- Lateral retroperitoneal lumbar corpectomy.- Percutaneous thoracic pedicle screw insertion.- Lateral retropleural thoracic corpectomy.- Posterior cervical foraminotomy.- Posterior cervical fusion (D-TRAX).

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriel Tender was born in 1968 in Craiova, Romania, and gained his medical degree there, before undertaking a neurosurgery residency at the Institute of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Bucharest, Romania and then moving to the USA. He completed surgical internships at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA and then a neurosurgery residency at Louisiana State University, New Orleans. He was then a fellow researching pain inhibition at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD. He is currently a Staff Neurosurgeon at several hospitals in new Orleans and Director, Trauma Neurosurgery Program, University Hospital Campus of Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, Director, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Program, University Hospital Campus of Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans.