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What is Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery?
The field of spine surgery is rapidly evolving to include a variety of new techniques and technology that allow surgeons to treat spinal pathology with minimally invasive procedures. Despite requiring new and specific surgical skill sets, the promise of these new approaches include less soft tissue trauma, decreased blood loss, faster post-operative recovery and better long-term outcomes. A growing amount of recent and current research serves to explore these benefits and inform recommendations regarding best practices in treating patients.
- Minimally Invasive Decompression (i.e. microdiscectomy, laminotomy, foraminotomy, laminectomy)
- Micro Endoscopic Posterior Cervical Discectomy
- Endoscopic Microdiscectomy
- MIS TLIF (Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion)
- LLIF (Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion)
- ALIF (Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion)
- Lumbar Disc Replacement
- Cervical Disc Replacement
- ACDF (Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion)
- Cervical Laminoplasty