Main 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