Main description:

This book details the current status of cervical MISS for expert surgeons, young surgeons or clinicians, and residents and fellows with little or no experience on this field of surgery. Because of the involvement of different and highly trained specialists from all over the world, the aim of this book is to satisfy the requirements for knowing the most advanced surgical techniques and their application. Also included are the indications and surgical techniques involving an open standard approach, giving a most exhaustive knowledge of the cervical spine surgery.

Due to the difficulty of finding books with both minimal invasive cervical spine surgery and more conventional standard "open" surgery, the benefit of this book is to permit the surgeons and residents and medical doctors, to have a more complete and immediate knowledge of the topics. Due to the scientific multidisciplinary nature of the MISS, several professionals such as orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, radiologists, anesthesiologists and pain management specialists, have been involved in order to create a book in which all the aspects of MISS have been treated.

Contents:

Anatomy of cervical spine.- Biomechanical evaluation of cervical spine Imaging.- Anesthesiology procedures involved on cervical spine.- Pain management of cervical spine disease.- Percutaneous procedures in cervical disc herniation treatment.- Endoscopy in cervical spine surgery.- Percutaneous posterior facet augmentation in cervical foraminal stenosis.- Anterior cervical decompression and fusion.- Anterior approach and autologous interbody fusion.- Role of cages in anterior cervical surgery.- Cervical prosthetic discs.- Role of materials in cervical spine fusion.- Biomechanical engineering in choice of different stiffness material.- C1-C2 posterior approach.- Screwing of the dens epistropheus.- Transarticular posterior screw fixation.- Posterior open door approach.- Vertebral compression fracture on cervical spine.- Corpectomy in cervical bone metastasis.- Trigeminal neuralgia surgery.- Robotics in cervical spine surgery.- Postoperative physical therapy rehabilitation.