Spondylolysis from pars fracture is a common injury among young athletes, which can limit activity and cause chronic back pain. While current literature has examined the relative benefits of surgical and conservative management of these injuries, no study has yet compared outcomes between conventional direct repair of pars defects and modern minimally invasive procedures. The goals of surgery a...

BACKGROUND Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) has emerged as one of the common procedures performed by spine surgeons. Back pain and radiculopathy due to degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, or deformity are the usual indications. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques have proven to be effective in TLIF as they are associated with less blood loss, fewer wound complicat...

Measurement of intratesticular sex steroid concentrations in men informs both the development of male hormonal contraceptives and the understanding of male infertility. Given the challenges of using invasive techniques to measure testicular hormone physiology, our group has used a minimally-invasive fine-needle aspiration technique to measure intratesticular hormones in normal healthy men. Here...

After the great success of minimally invasive approach in abdominal surgery, thoracoscopic surgery has gained a broad acceptance for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures due to the fact that permits good exposure of the pleural cavity, enables extensive dissection and combines the advantages of minimal invasive surgery with little tissue trauma, short recovery, less pain and improved cosmetic ...

INTRODUCTION: Aesthetic soft tissue facial augmentation using neuromodulators and dermal fillers has become ubiquitous in the United States, accounting for over 8 million minimally invasive procedures performed in 2013. 1 Despite high rates of satisfaction, these facial rejuvenation procedures are not without complications, including pain, edema and erythema post-treatment. 3 We present a pre-t...

conclusions if the indications and contraindications of minimally invasive thyroidectomy are taken into account, it seems to be a safe procedure and regarding the benefits of this procedure, it's recommended that surgeons pay more attention to this newly developed technique. introduction since 1996 with improvement of endoscopic instrumentation several novel minimally invasive techniques have b...

BACKGROUND To determine the role of Letrozole, an aromatase inhibitor, in the treatment of endometriotic pain. METHODS In this prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial in minimally invasive surgery research center, 51 women with pelvic endometriosis and endometriotic pain (dyspareunia, dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain) score of 5 or more (for at least one of these endometriotic pain), afte...

OBJECTIVE Less invasive approaches to mitral valve surgery are increasingly used for improved cosmesis; however, few studies have investigated their effect on outcome. We sought to compare these minimally invasive approaches fairly with conventional full sternotomy by using propensity-matching methods. METHODS From January 1995 to January 2004, 2124 patients underwent isolated mitral valve su...

Pectus excavatum is the most common congenital deformity of the chest wall. The most frequently used techniques include Ravitch (costochondral resection) and Nuss (minimally invasive pectus repair of pectus excavatum [MIRPE]). The Nuss technique includes using temporary metallic bars without costochondral resection to correct the chest wall deformity. Modified MIRPE can be learned easily and pe...