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Role of minimally invasive surgery for adult spinal deformity in preventing complications

  • Complications in Spine Surgery (E Klineberg, Section Editor)
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With the aging population, there is a rising prevalence of degenerative spinal deformity and need of surgical care for these patients. Surgical treatment for adult spinal deformity (ASD) is often fraught with a high rate of complications. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has for the past decade been adopted by spine surgeons to treat ASD in the hopes of reducing access-related morbidity and perioperative complications. The benefits of MIS approach in general and recent development of MIS techniques to avoid long-term complications such as pseudoarthrosis or proximal junctional kyphosis are reviewed.

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    Chun-Po Yen, Yusef I. Mosley & Juan S. Uribe

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Yen, CP., Mosley, Y.I. & Uribe, J.S. Role of minimally invasive surgery for adult spinal deformity in preventing complications. Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med 9, 309–315 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12178-016-9355-6

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