BioMed Research International

The State of the Art in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery


Publishing date
06 Jan 2017
Status
Published
Submission deadline
19 Aug 2016

Lead Editor

1Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

2Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Seoul, Republic of Korea

3Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

4Desert Institute for Spine Care, Arizona, USA

5West China Hospital at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China


The State of the Art in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Description

With the aids of modern optic technologies and instruments refinement in the last 2 decades, minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) has been applied increasingly and does show its merits in the patients. The development of MISS including thoracoscopic, microendoscopic, percutaneous endoscopic, percutaneous vertebroplasty, ultrasound-guided pain management, and navigation or robotic assisted surgery has evolved rapidly. Both merits and disadvantages have been discussed and critically analyzed during the practice of these minimal invasive techniques in treating patients with spinal disorders. However, why these techniques have low tissue invasiveness to patient’s body and same or even better outcome with comparison to standard open surgery had not been well reported. Recently, the important role of percutaneous endoscopic interlaminar surgery has been reevaluated in patients with degenerative disc or stenosis; this technique does work very satisfactorily as other procedures and has become a daily surgery practice. However, we must say that MISS is still in its evolving stage thus far. Issues such as the learning curves, the need of training in anterior spine surgery, cost and benefits, and potential complications need constant analyses. Moreover, radiation exposure is a matter of great concern to the surgeons.

In this special issue, we warmly welcome researchers to send their original works as well as review articles in the field of MISS to us.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Microendoscopic discectomy (MED)
  • Minimally invasive lumbar interbody fusion (oblique, lateral, posterior, and anterior)
  • Percutaneous endoscopic discectomy (PED)/laminectomy (PEL) at lumbar or cervical regions
  • Thoracoscopic spine surgery
  • Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV)
  • Debates on the role of interspinous process implants
  • Fluoroscopic or ultrasound-guided pain management
  • Pitfalls, complications, or radiation hazards in MISS
  • Navigation-guided or robotic-assisted spine surgery

Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2017
  • - Article ID 6194016
  • - Editorial

The State of the Art in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Tsung-Jen Huang | Ki-Tack Kim | ... | Jiancheng Zeng
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2017
  • - Article ID 4385620
  • - Review Article

Could the Topping-Off Technique Be the Preventive Strategy against Adjacent Segment Disease after Pedicle Screw-Based Fusion in Lumbar Degenerative Diseases? A Systematic Review

Po-Hsin Chou | Hsi-Hsien Lin | ... | Cheng-Li Lin
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2017
  • - Article ID 2302395
  • - Clinical Study

Application of Intraoperative CT-Guided Navigation in Simultaneous Minimally Invasive Anterior and Posterior Surgery for Infectious Spondylitis

Meng-Huang Wu | Navneet Kumar Dubey | ... | Tsung-Jen Huang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2017
  • - Article ID 5619350
  • - Clinical Study

A Novel Nonpedicular Screw-Based Fixation in Lumbar Spondylolisthesis

Ming-Hong Chen | Jen-Yuh Chen
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2017
  • - Article ID 8423638
  • - Review Article

The Outcomes of Minimally Invasive versus Open Posterior Approach Spinal Fusion in Treatment of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: The Current Evidence from Prospective Comparative Studies

Ai-Min Wu | Chun-Hui Chen | ... | Wen-Fei Ni
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 2834259
  • - Clinical Study

Endoscopic Radiofrequency Ablation of the Sacroiliac Joint Complex in the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain: A Preliminary Study of Feasibility and Efficacy of a Novel Technique

Won-Suh Choi | Jin-Sung Kim | ... | Hyun-Jin Cho
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 6808507
  • - Clinical Study

Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery and Minimal Access Spinal Surgery Compared in Anterior Thoracic or Thoracolumbar Junctional Spinal Reconstruction: A Case-Control Study and Review of the Literature

Ching-Yu Lee | Meng-Huang Wu | ... | Tsung-Jen Huang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 1457219
  • - Research Article

Anatomical Location of the Common Iliac Veins at the Level of the Sacrum: Relationship between Perforation Risk and the Trajectory Angle of the Screw

Javid Akhgar | Hidetomi Terai | ... | Hiroaki Nakamura
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 1758352
  • - Clinical Study

Applying the Mini-Open Anterolateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Self-Anchored Stand-Alone Polyetheretherketone Cage in Lumbar Revision Surgery

Lei Kuang | Yuqiao Chen | ... | Bing Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 7261027
  • - Clinical Study

Miniopen Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Unilateral Fixation: A Comparison between Ipsilateral and Contralateral Reherniation

Zheng Li | Fubing Liu | ... | Xiaoxing Jiang
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