Full Description
Endoscopic Spinal Surgery provides a comprehensive, practical and timely review of the minimally invasive endoscopic surgical techniques used to treat conditions of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine.
Recent advances in technology, together with improved clinical outcomes, have established percutaneous endoscopic spinal procedures as alternatives to traditional open spinal surgery. This text describes the most effective endoscopic techniques currently available and discusses indications, surgical approaches, complications, and clinical outcomes. An authoritative, international team of contributors provides surgical insight and expert guidance.
Provides a definitive 'go to' reference for spinal surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons and neurosurgeons
Gives expert guidance on the full range of minimally invasive endoscopic techniques used in the management of spinal disorders, in chapters organized by spinal section
Includes general chapters on instrumentation, relevant neuroanatomy, and anesthetic considerations
Dedicates a chapter to classification and coding issues
Contents
Section 1 - Introduction
1 History of endoscopic spinal surgery
2 Instruments for spinal endoscopy
3 Relevant neuroanatomy of the lumbar motion segment
4 Anaesthetic consideration for endoscopic spinal surgery
Section 2 - C-Spine
5 Anterior percutaneous cervical discectomy
6 Percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy and stablization
7 Endoscopic anterior cervical discectomy
8 Posterior cervical microendoscopic discectomy and foraminotomy
9 Posterior cervical endoscopic foraminotomy
10 Endoscopically assisted posterior cervical foraminotomy
Section 3 - T-Spine
11 Percutaneous endoscopic thoracic discectomy and facetoplasty
12 Thoracoscopic discectomy
13 CT-guided percutaneous endoscopic thoracic discectomy
14 Thoracoscopic assisted mini-thoracotomy, corpectomy and fusion
Section 4 - L-Spine
15 Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy: transforaminal approach
16 Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy: outside-in v. inside-out technique
17 Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy: interlaminar approach
18 Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar foraminoplasty
19 Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar annuloplasty
20 Endoscopically assisted transforaminal percutaneous TLIF
21 Endoscopy of the aging spine
22 Indications for endoscopic spinal stenosis surgery
23 Complications following lumbar spinal endoscopy
Section 5 - Miscellaneous
24 Procedural classification and coding problems
