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Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

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Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is increasingly replacing and/or augmenting traditional open procedures that have been the mainstay of spine surgery for over 100 years. Minimally invasive and endoscopic spine surgery continues to develop with advances in technology leading to expansions in surgical indications and inspiring novel techniques. The principle of MIS is to achieve the same anatomic procedural goals, while minimizing collateral tissue disruption. MIS techniques, including endoscopy, provide the benefits of smaller incisions, less blood loss, expedited recovery, and fewer inpatient and perioperative resource requirements. As these devices decrease in size, there will likely be a concomitant increase in adjuvant localization tools, such as navigation and robotic automation. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a basic overview of these techniques as well as some of their most common indications.

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  1. Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Grace X. Xiong, Harry M. Lightsey IV & Alexander M. Crawford

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Andrew K. Simpson

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  1. Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    S. Ali Mostoufi

  2. Restorative Orthopaedics Spine &Sports (ROSS) Institute, Somerset, NJ, USA

    Tony K. George

  3. Department of Orthopedics, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Alfred J. Tria Jr.

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Xiong, G.X., Lightsey, H.M., Crawford, A.M., Simpson, A.K. (2022). Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. In: Mostoufi, S.A., George, T.K., Tria Jr., A.J. (eds) Clinical Guide to Musculoskeletal Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92042-5_15

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