Spinal surgery.

Spinal Anaesthesia in Spinal Surgery

Instrumentation in spinal surgery.

As a result of rapid advances in the field of spinal instrumentation, the surgeon today has at his disposal many well-designed implants, such as pedicle screws, hooks, rods, plates, and interbody fusion devices. Many of these implants are modular and are used in combination, such as hooks and screws attached to rods, allowing the surgeon flexibility in selecting the appropriate implants to meet...

Laparoscopically Assisted Spinal Surgery

BACKGROUND Spinal surgery is one of the newest frontiers of videolaparoscopic surgery, but requires the cooperative efforts of both the spinal surgeon and the laparoscopic general surgeon. DATA BASE We report our experience with 76 cases of laparoscopic spinal surgery, using both a transperitoneal and a retroperitoneal approach. Technical details and complications are described in detail. C...

Spinal Motion Preservation Surgery

1Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 2School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan 3Department of Neurosurgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA 5Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL,...

P-179: Spinal Anesthesia in Laparoscopic Surgery of Infertile Patients

Background: Laparoscopy is one of the most common surgical procedures. General anesthesia as the only suitable technique for laparoscopic procedures is a concept of the past. A problem with modern general anesthetics is that even though patients can be awake and oriented shortly after cessation of the anesthetic. There is growing evidence suggesting that regional anesthesia has an important rol...