Book[edited by] Daniel H. Kim, Gun Choi, Sang-Ho Lee.
Summary: "As the understanding of human physiology has become more complete, the importance of preserving normal tissues has become increasingly clear in the field of surgery. This understanding gave birth to the concept of minimally invasive surgery that has conquered almost all surgical fields, including spine surgery. With recent advances and experience, minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS) is gradually replacing conventional spine surgical procedures. The primary goal of MISS is to achieve outcomes comparable to those of open surgery while minimizing normal tissue damage and reducing recovery times. Advances in optics, radionavigation, and laser technology made MISS more accessible to surgeons and truly less invasive for the patient. Minimally invasive surgical techniques have touched the entire spinal column, from the cervical to the lumbosacral spine. The MISS spectrum ranges from simple disk surgeries to the most complicated spine surgeries, such as deformity correction. Of all MISS procedures, percutaneous endoscopic disk surgery has attracted the most attention from the global spine surgery community and has enjoyed phenomenal advances in sophistication in the past decade. The remainder of the chapter presents a historical account of percutaneous disk surgeries for the lumbar and cervical spine. "--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Principles and essentials of percutaneous endoscopic spine surgery
History of endoscopic spine surgery
Endoscopic surgical instruments
Operating room setup
Selection and use of lasers and their safety
Anesthesia
Percutaneous endoscopic cervical diskectomy (PECD)
Applied anatomy for percutaneous approaches to the cervical spine
Surgical techniques in percutaneous endoscopic cervical diskectomy
Case presentations and surgical technique: percutaneous endoscopic cervical diskectomy
Complications in percutaneous endoscopic cervical diskectomy
Percutaneous endoscopic thoracic diskectomy (PETD)
Applied anatomy and percutaneous approaches to the thoracic spine
Surgical techniques in percutaneous endoscopic thoracic diskectomy
Case presentations and surgical technique: percutaneous endoscopic thoracic diskectomy
Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar diskectomy (PELD)
Applied anatomy and percutaneous approaches to the lumbar spine
Transforaminal surgical approach
Extraforaminal surgical approach
Surgical technique for migrated disk with foraminoplasty
Interlaminar surgical approach
Case presentations and surgical technique: percutaneous endoscopic lumbar diskectomy
Case presentations and surgical technique: special lumbar cases
Complications in percutaneous endoscopic lumbar diskectomy.