Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: A Surgical Manual / Edition 2

by H. Michael Mayer

Overview

Don’t miss it! The second, completely revised and expanded edition of the successful surgical manual on minimally invasive spine surgery includes 51 chapters (including more than 20 new chapters) covering all current minimally invasive techniques in spine surgery. A complete survey of all microsurgical and endoscopic techniques with a special focus on semi-invasive injection techniques for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in low back pain is given. The clear chapter structure with terminology, history, surgical principles, advantages/disadvantages, indications, access principles, complications, and results facilitates navigation through the manual. Topics include the principles of microsurgical and endoscopic treatment, spinal navigation and computer-assisted surgery, minimally invasive reconstruction, fusion, dynamic stabilization in fractures, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, low back pain and deformities. The didactic presentation of surgical steps makes the reader familiar with all types of new minimally invasive techniques in clinical use or still in ongoing clinical trials such as minimally invasive spine arthroplasty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642059711
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/25/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 2nd ed. 2006
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 10.63(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

Mayer, H. Michael, MD, PhD (Spine Center Munich)

Table of Contents

General: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery.- Technologic Advances of Surgical Microscopes for Spine Surgery.- Spinal Microsurgery - A Short Introduction.- Microsurgical Instruments.- Operating Room Setup and Handling of the Microscope.- Computer Assisted Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery - State of the Art. Techniques: Cervical Spine: Odontoid: The Technique of Transoral Odontoidectomy.- Microsurgical Treatment of Odontoid Fractures. Disc Surgery / Decompression: Microsurgery of the Cervical Spine: The Anterior Approach.- Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy.- Functional Segmental Reconstruction with the Bryan Total Cervical DiscTM.- Microsurgical Total Cervical Disc Replacement. Microsurgical Posterior Approaches to the Cervical Spine. Microsurgical C1/2 stabilization. Thoracic/Thoraco-Lumbar Spine: General Techniques: The Microsurgical Anterior Approach to T5–T10 (Mini-TTA).- Microsurgical Anterior Approach to the Thoraco-Lumbar Junction.- Anatomic Principles of Thoracoscopic Spine Surgery.- Principles of Endoscopic Techniques in the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine.- Biomechanical Requirements in Minimally Invasive Spinal Fracture Treatment. Deformities: Thoracoscopic Approaches in Spinal Deformities and Trauma. Thoracoscopic Techniques in Spinal Deformities.- Mini-open Endoscopic Excision of Hemivertebrae.- Fractures: Thoracoscopic-Assisted Anterior Approach to Thoracolumbar Fractures.- Minimal Invasive but Open Approach to the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine.- Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures.- Microsurgical Open Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty.- Pecutaneous Vertebroplasty in Traumatic Fractures. Lumbar Spine: Low Back Pain: Semi-Invasive Procedures for Low Back Pain and Disc Herniation. Disc: Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET).- Microtherapy In Low Back Pain.- Principles of MicrosurgicalDiscectomy in Lumbar Disc Herniations.- The Microsurgical Interlaminar, Paramedian Approach.- The translaminar approach.- The Lateral, Extraforaminal Approach.- Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy.- Microscope-assisted Percutaneous Technique as Minimally Invasive Approach to the Posterior Spine.- Arthroscopic and Endoscopic Spinal Surgery via a Posterolateral Approach.- The Endoscopic Interlaminar Approach.- Outpatient Microsurgical Lumbar Discectomy and Microdecompression Laminoplasty. Disc Reconstruction: Nucleus Reconstruction by Autologeous Chondrocyte Transplantation.- Autologous Disc Chondrocyte Transplantation.- The ALPA Approach for Minimal Invasive Nucleus Pulposus Replacement. Mini-open Midline Accesses for Lumbar Total Disc Replacement. Spinal Stenosis: Microsurgical Decompression of Acquired (Degenerative) Central and Lateral Spinal Canal Stenosis. Fusion: Microsurgical Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (MINIALIF) - The Retroperitoneal Approach to L2/3, L3/4, and L4/5.- Microsurgical Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: The Transperitoneal Approach to L5/S1.- Minimal invasive 360° Lumbar Fusion.- The Anterior Extraperitoneal Video-Assisted Approach to the Lumbar Spine. Dynamic Stabilization: Minimally invasive Dynamic Stabilization of the Lumbar Motion Segment with an Interspinous Implant.- Technical and Anatomical Considerations for the Placement of a Posterior Interspinous Stabilizer. -Elastic Microsurgical Stabilization with Posterior Shock Absorber.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

The book covers almost all commonly used minimally invasive surgical procedures. The first section deals with the microscope and operating room setup. Challenging procedures of the cervical spine include a detailed technique for treating the odontoid fracture, microsurgical total cervical disc replacement, and microsurgical stabilization of C1-2 fusion. Microsurgical approaches and endoscopic principles are very well covered for the thoracic and lumbar spine. A section on disc reconstruction describes cutting-edge procedures such as autologous chondrocyte transplantation and nucleus pulposus replacement. Spinal stenosis, spinal fusions, and dynamic stabilizations are described in detail. The book is well illustrated and referenced by the authors. Photos showing the position of the patient on the operating table are most useful....This is perhaps the best book written on the subject. I very highly recommend it to all spine surgeons and orthopedic and neurosurgical trainees. (5 Stars Doody's review by Edward Abraham)

"This is an excellent book! Edited by H. Michael Mayer, it is a multiauthor mix of European, American, Swiss and Australian, but predominantly German and North American current and cutting edge spinal practice. It is remarkable that in less than 500 pages … the entirety of spinal surgery from trans-oral odontoidectomy to low lumbar dynamic stabilisation can be summarised so eloquently and comprehensively. … this book should be essential reading for every spinal surgeon and occupy a prominent place in every departmental library." (Barrie D. White, Acta Neurochirurgica, Vol. 148 (6), 2006)

"This is the second edition of a book that puts great effort into covering all aspects of minimally invasive surgery of the spine (MISS). … The individual chapters are thoroughly structured and easy to overview. The illustrations are generally of high quality … . the book is so well written and well structured that it is a pleasure to read it from beginning to end. … This excellent book is a must for everyone interested in spine surgery … ." (Björn Strömqvist, Acta Orthopaedica, Vol. 77 (4), 2006)

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Edward Abraham, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description: This manual on minimally invasive spine surgery discusses different and usually smaller soft tissue operative wounds as the standard procedure.
Purpose: The purpose of this work is to describe and teach all possibly known minimally invasive surgical procedures, which include microsurgical and endoscopic techniques. These most worthy objectives are met by the authors.
Audience: The audience is mainly spine surgeons and orthopedic and neurosurgery residents. The editor, H. Michael Mayer, MD, PhD, Director of the Spine Center of Munich, is qualified to write on this topic. He is supported by an international cast of contributing authors.
Features: The book covers almost all commonly used minimally invasive surgical procedures. The first section deals with the microscope and operating room setup. Challenging procedures of the cervical spine include a detailed technique for treating the odontoid fracture, microsurgical total cervical disc replacement, and microsurgical stabilization of C1-2 fusion. Microsurgical approaches and endoscopic principles are very well covered for the thoracic and lumbar spine. A section on disc reconstruction describes cutting-edge procedures such as autologous chondrocyte transplantation and nucleus pulposus replacement. Spinal stenosis, spinal fusions, and dynamic stabilizations are described in detail. The book is well illustrated and referenced by the authors. Photos showing the position of the patient on the operating table are most useful.
Assessment: This book is being published at a most opportune time. It proposes that minimally invasive surgery might be the technique of choice as opposed to conventional surgical approaches. In the case of minimally invasive approaches for hip replacement surgery, there is growing evidence that this technique offers no significant advantage to the conventional approach, and that the shorter hospital stay is correlated with advances in anesthetic techniques. The reader must be reminded that the newer procedures described in this book are based on limited numbers of cases and therefore the full array of complications may not be known. This is perhaps the best book written on the subject. I very highly recommend it to all spine surgeons and orthopedic and neurosurgical trainees.

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