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Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Techniques

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  • Provides a surgical narrative to help the reader follow the operative videos

  • Describes the potential complications of each procedure and how to avoid them

  • Includes operative videos showing real live cases

  • Helps the reader understand all the currently available MISS techniques

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction to Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

    • Gabriel Tender, Daniel Serban, Anthony DiGiorgio
    Pages 1-4
  3. Microdiscectomy

    • Niki Calina, Daniel Serban, Adriana Constantinescu, Anthony Digiorgio, Gabriel Tender
    Pages 5-21
  4. Facetectomy

    • Anthony Digiorgio, Malcolm Daniel Eggart, Adriana Constantinescu, Jason Wilson, Gabriel Tender
    Pages 23-31
  5. Parsectomy

    • Rand Voorhies, Gabriel Tender, Clifford Crutcher, Anthony Digiorgio
    Pages 33-40
  6. Laminectomy

    • Zachary A. Medress, Yi-Ren Chen, Ian Connolly, John Ratliff, Atman Desai
    Pages 41-45
  7. Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

    • Daniel Serban, Niki Calina, Anthony Digiorgio, Gabriel Tender
    Pages 47-71
  8. Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion

    • Gabriel Tender, Daniel Serban, Niki Calina, Mihaela Florea, Lindsay Lasseigne
    Pages 73-96
  9. Oblique Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: OLIF

    • Ronald Moskovich, Saqib Hasan
    Pages 97-121
  10. Percutaneous Pedicle Screw/Rod Fixation

    • Daniel Serban, Niki Calina, Anthony DiGiorgio, Lindsay Lasseigne, Gabriel Tender
    Pages 123-133
  11. The Presacral Approach (AxiaLIF)

    • John Gachiani, Silvia Gesheva, Mihaela Florea, Gabriel Tender
    Pages 135-141
  12. Percutaneous Facet Screws

    • Malcolm Daniel Eggart, Silvia Gesheva, Clifford Crutcher, Gabriel Tender
    Pages 143-145
  13. Sacro-Iliac Joint Fusion

    • Gabriel Tender, Alexis Waguespack, Clifford Crutcher, Anthony Digiorgio, Remi Nader
    Pages 147-154
  14. Lumbar Retroperitoneal Transpsoas Corpectomy

    • Gabriel Tender, Durga R. Sure, Yasser Badr, Anthony Digiorgio, Clifford Crutcher
    Pages 155-172
  15. Thoracic Lateral Retropleural Discectomy

    • Gabriel Tender, Daniel Serban, Mihaela Florea, Adriana Constantinescu, Kara Parikh
    Pages 173-182
  16. Percutaneous Thoracic Pedicle Screws

    • Parastou Fatemi, Anand Veeravagu, John K. Ratliff
    Pages 183-192
  17. Thoracic Lateral Retropleural Corpectomy

    • Gabriel Tender, Durga R. Sure, Yasser Badr, Clifford Crutcher, Lindsay Lasseigne
    Pages 193-202
  18. Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy

    • George M. Ghobrial, Allan D. Levi
    Pages 203-211
  19. Minimally Invasive Posterior Cervical Decompression

    • Mena G. Kerolus, Joseph E. Molenda, Mazda K. Turel, Richard G. Fessler
    Pages 213-220
  20. D-TRAX

    • Clifford Crutcher, Anthony Digiorgio, Remi Nader, Gabriel Tender
    Pages 221-227

About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Louisiana State University, New Orleans, USA

    Gabriel Tender

About the editor

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Techniques

  • Editors: Gabriel Tender

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71943-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71942-9Published: 19 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10132-9Published: 28 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71943-6Published: 07 March 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 235

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurosurgery, Surgical Orthopedics

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Softcover Book USD 159.00
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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