Objective: In order to prolong the duration of intrathecal lidocaine, various drugs are used along with it. Due to the promising effects of tizanidine on central nervous system, it can be assumed that tizanidine can have a positive effect on increasing the anesthesia duration too. Thus, we aimed to investigate the effect of oral tizanidine on the duration of lidocaine spinal anesthesia.Me...

PURPOSE Endoscopy-assisted anterior spinal surgery is less invasive, resulting in less tissue trauma. It has a shorter recovery period, leads to less morbidity, and is more cost efficient than conventional surgery. We report our early experience of endoscopic anterior spinal surgery in Thailand, which was performed with a basic laparoscopic instrument set and self-developed instruments for spin...

Degenerated spinal disc and spinal stenosis are common problems requiring decompressive spinal surgery. Traditional open spinal discectomy is associated with significant tissue trauma, greater morbidity/complications, scarring, often longer term of convalescence, and even destabilization of the spine. Therefore, the pursuit of less traumatic minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) began. The tr...

Background: Evidence shows that spinal anesthesia can alter the penile length and engorgement fact patients undergoing may experience erectile dysfunction. We hypothesized would not result in altered length; however, it lead to temporary Methods: A total of 73 referred our hospital for endoscopic urological surgeries underwent either (SA, n = 37) or general (GA, 36). measured patients’ both str...

Development of anesthesiology and improvement of surgical instruments enabled aggressive surgical treatment even in elderly patients, who require more active physical activities than they were in the past. However, there are controversies about the clinical outcome of spinal surgery in elderly patients with spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis. The purpose of this study is to review the clinica...

Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery & Technique (JMISST) is the official journal Korean Society (KOMISS) for publication research results about minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS), including studies in endoscopic surgery, procedure degenerative spine disease, pain intervention, and fusion or trauma, neuroscience, neurology, molecular biology biomechanics etc. Articles with helpful ...

Postoperative surgical site infections (SSIs) are more common complications after spinal surgery. SSIs often require extended hospitalisation and may worsen overall clinical outcomes. A retrospective database review of consecutive patients with traditional open lumbar spinal surgery was performed. SSIs patients were identified and reviewed for clinically relevant details, and postoperative SSIs...