Main description:

This book presents an updated perspective on spinal implants currently used in thoraco-lumbar spine surgery, leading to a rigid or dynamic spine fusion. The development of new surgical devices and techniques is mostly focused on a spinal fusion for lumbar instability due to trauma, tumours or degenerative or infectious diseases. Pedicle-screw fixation and fusion are currently considered to be the gold standard for most of the above-mentioned pathologies, and modern implants are designed to improve the accuracy of pedicle-screw placement and to allow the use of new surgical techniques and minimally invasive approaches. The content is relevant for surgeons, orthopaedic specialists, neurosurgeons, physiotherapists and osteopaths.

Contents:

1. The Role of Neuronavigation In Lumbar Spine Surgery
Gualtiero Innocenzi
2. Imaging In Lumbar Spine Surgery: The Role Of Intraoperative CT-scan.Giuseppe Calvosa, Miria Tenucci, Matteo Galgani, Stefano Vallini

3. The Robotic Arm Guidance Systems: Principles and IndicationsEnrico Tessitore, Granit Molliqaj, Claudio Schonauer, Bawarjan Schatlo

4. The Robotic Arm Guidance System: Applications And LimitsVejay Vakharia and Hani J. Marcus

5. 3D Printed Tubular Guides for Pedicle Screw FixationRiccardo Cecchinato, Claudio Lamartina

6. New Techniques and MIS - The XLIF TechniqueMassimo Balsano MD, Alexandros Zachos, Giulia Raffaella Mosele and Carlo Doria

7. New Implants and Techniques in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: Percutaneous Spine Fusion with the Posterolateral Endoscopic Approach.Rudolph Morgenstern and Christian Morgenstern

8. New Techniques and MIS: The Minimally Invasive TLIFPatrizio Cervellini, Lorenzo Alvaro, Giacomo Beggio, Ludovico Rossetto

9. New Techniques and MIS: The Awake TLIFHsuan-Kan Chang, John Paul George Kolcun, Michael Y. Wang

10. New Techniques and MIS --- The Cortical Bone Trajectory Screws: Indications And LimitsKeitaro Matsugawa

11. New Techniques And MIS: The Interspinous Fixation DevicesAlessandro Landi, Fabrizio Gregori, Nicola Marotta, Roberto Delfini

12. New Techniques And MIS - The Interfacet Fixation With Facet Wedge DeviceRene Hartensuer Maarten Spruit

13. Expandable Cages and Minimal Invasive Approaches to the Thoracolumbar Spine for Anterior Column ReconstructionFederico De Iure, Michele Cappuccio, Giovanbattista Scimeca, Alessandro Corghi

14. New Techniques and MIS: The Thoracoscopic ApproachFrancesco Signorelli, Massimiliano Visocchi