ObjectiveLow back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide and one most common reasons for seeking health care. Despite numerous care strategies, patients with low continue to exhibit poor outcomes. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) an evidence-based therapeutic modality failed surgery syndrome. For without a surgical lesion or history, minimally invasive interventions that provide long-te...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES After the widespread application of minimally invasive surgery for benign diseases and given its proven safety and efficacy, minimally invasive surgery for gastrointestinal cancer has gained substantial attention in the past several years. Despite the large number of publications on the topic and level I evidence to support its use in colon cancer, minimally invasive s...

Microsurgery for lumbar herniated discs that require surgical intervention is a very successful and well-described technique, whether performed through more traditional "open" microsurgical retractors or through minimally-invasive "tube" retractors. Surgery for extruded lumbar disc fragments that migrate caudad or cephalad from the disc origin may typically require modifying the standard hemila...

Objectives: The purpose of the current case presentation was to indicate the usefulness of long thoracic and lumbar (TL) spinal stabilization by percutaneous minimally invasive instrumentation. Materials and methods: From August 2012 to May 2013, we performed long TL spinal stabilization with VIPER 2 system (Depuy Spine, Inc., MA, US) by using a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) posterior approa...