Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Surgery of the spine continues to be a key aspect of neurosurgery, constituting over half of all neurosurgical procedures. This issue of Neurosurgery Clinics investigates recent trends in minimally invasive methods. Article topics include minimally invasive approaches to cervical discectomy and foraminotomy, cervical decompression, thoracic discectomy and decompression, thoracoscopic spine surgery, deformity correction, lumbar discectomy and foraminotomy, lumbar decompression, fixation techniques, fusion techniques, and spinal tumors.O'Toole, John is the author of 'Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery ' with ISBN 9781416039303 and ISBN 1416039309.