Endoscopic Spinal Surgery

Endoscopic Spinal Surgery provides a comprehensive, practical and timely review of the minimally invasive endoscopic surgical techniques used to treat conditions of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine.

Recent advances in technology, together with improved clinical outcomes, have established percutaneous endoscopic spinal procedures as alternatives to traditional open spinal surgery. This text describes the most effective endoscopic techniques currently available and discusses indications, surgical approaches, complications, and clinical outcomes. An authoritative, international team of contributors provides surgical insight and expert guidance.

• Provides a definitive ‘go to’ reference for spinal surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons and neurosurgeons
• Gives expert guidance on the full range of minimally invasive endoscopic techniques used in the management of spinal disorders, in chapters organized by spinal section
• Includes general chapters on instrumentation, relevant neuroanatomy, and anesthetic considerations
• Dedicates a chapter to classification and coding issues

Section 1 – Introduction
1 History of endoscopic spinal surgery
2 Instruments for spinal endoscopy
3 Relevant neuroanatomy of the lumbar motion segment
4 Anaesthetic consideration for endoscopic spinal surgery

Section 2 - C-Spine
5 Anterior percutaneous cervical discectomy

6 Percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy and stablization

7 Endoscopic anterior cervical discectomy

8 Posterior cervical microendoscopic discectomy and foraminotomy

9 Posterior cervical endoscopic foraminotomy
10 Endoscopically  assisted posterior cervical foraminotomy

Section 3 - T-Spine
11 Percutaneous endoscopic thoracic discectomy and facetoplasty

12 Thoracoscopic discectomy

13 CT-guided percutaneous endoscopic thoracic discectomy
14 Thoracoscopic assisted mini-thoracotomy, corpectomy and fusion

Section 4 - L-Spine
15 Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy: transforaminal approach

16 Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy: outside-in v. inside-out technique

17 Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy: interlaminar approach

18 Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar foraminoplasty

19 Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar annuloplasty

20 Endoscopically assisted transforaminal percutaneous TLIF

21 Endoscopy of the aging spine

22 Indications for endoscopic spinal stenosis surgery
23 Complications following lumbar spinal endoscopy

Section 5 - Miscellaneous

24 Procedural classification and coding problems

Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Arizona; Spinal Surgeon, Center for Advanced Spinal Surgery of Southern Arizona

Sang-Ho Lee MD, PhD
President, Wooridul Spine Hospital Group, South Korea

Menno Iprenburg
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Rugkliniek Iprenburg, Veenhuizen, Netherlands