British spine surgery

British Journal of Surgery

Technique in British Surgery

Mr. Maingot has collected together the contributions from the pen of 29 front ranking British surgeons and each has written on his own specialty. The subjects include the most recent advances in the surgical fields such as congenital heart disease, vagal resection, retropubic prostatectomy, nerve suture, hypospadias, Parkinson's disease, etc., as well as those not so recent such as intestinal o...

Computer assisted spine surgery.

When inserting screws into a vertebral pedicle, the surgeon usually exposes the back part of the vertebra and uses his or her anatomic knowledge to align the drill in the proper direction. A slight error in direction may result in an important error in the position of the tip of the screw. This is done with no direct visibility of crucial structures (spinal cord, pleura, vessels). Statistical a...

Minimally - Invasive Spine Surgery

I recent decades, an increasing number of spinal surgical approaches and techniques have been developed that limit approach-related morbidity to the paraspinal musculature (44,60). Minimally invasive spine (MIS) surgery encompasses a variety of techniques designed to improve perioperative measures (e.g. blood loss, postoperative pain narcotic usage, recovery time) and longterm functional outcom...

Endoscopic Spine Surgery

Surgical treatment of the degenerative disc disease has evolved from traditional open spine surgery to minimally invasive spine surgery including endoscopic spine surgery. Constant improvement in the imaging modality especially with introduction of the magnetic resonance imaging, it is possible to identify culprit degenerated disc segment and again with the discography it is possible to diagnos...