“Minimally invasive” seems to be the catchphrase that we hear a lot these days. No matter which type of surgery we are talking about, it is what every patient wants to be told that he or she is a candidate for. Furthermore, nearly all surgeons want to claim that what they do is minimally invasive. For we must consider the alternative: No surgeon will announce that what he or she does is “maximally invasive.”
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Ozgur, B.M. (2009). General Introduction and Principles of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. In: Ozgur, B., Benzel, E., Garfin, S. (eds) Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89831-5_1
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