Advances in Minimally Invasive Surgery and Therapy for Spine and Nerves

A. Porzionato et al.: Surgical anatomy of the sacral hiatus for caudal access to the spinal canal. - V. Macchi et al.: Radiologic anatomy of the sacral canal. - C. Colosimo et al.: Imaging in degenerative spine pathology. - F. Postacchini, R. Postacchini: Operative management of lumbar disc herniation. - J. Soriano-Sánchez: Philosophy and concepts of the modern spine surgery. - M. Masini A. Calaca: Minimally invasive treatment for refractory low back pain, targeted by epidural endoscopy with o2/o3 and steroid therapy epidural injections: past, present and future. - M. Masini: Epidural injections: past, present and future. - L. Nilton Alves, Jr. et al.: Long term intrathecal infusion of opiates for treatment of failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS). - C.C.Quattrocchi et al.: Modic changes: anatomy, pathophysiology and clinical correlation. - W. Raffaeli et al.: Periduroscopy: general review of clinical features and development of operative models. - A. Di Donato et al.: The effectiveness of endoscopic epidurolysis in the treatment of degenerative chronic low back pain: a prospective analysis and follow-up at 48 months. -E. Talamoni Fonoff et al.: Endoscopic approaches to the spinal cord. - O. Omar-Pasha: Application of pulsed radio frequency to the dorsal horn and dorsal roots. - M. G. Baboor: Automated nucleotomy and nucleolysis with ozone. R. Assietti et al.: Treatment of discogenic low back pain with intradiscal electrothermal therapy (idet): 24 months follow-up in 50 consecutive patients. - T. Sinan et al.: Percutaneous coblation nucleoplasty in patients with contained lumbar disc prolapse. One year follow-up in a prospective case series. - A. Cesaroni et al.:Plasma-mediated disc decompression for contained cervical disc herniation: results through five years. - P.P. M. Menchetti et al.: Percutaneous laser discectomy. Experience and long term follow-up. - E. Borrelli: Mechanism of action of oxygen ozone therapy in the treatment of disc herniation and low back pain. - A. Alexandre et al.: Treatment of symptomatic lumbar spinal degenerative pathologies by means of combined conservative biochemical treatments. - M. Bonetti: Oxygen-ozone therapy for degenerative spine disease in the elderly: a prospective study. - A. Pepa Osvaldo: Ozone the one and only drug. - G.C. Anselmetti et al.: Vertebral augmentation: 7 years experience. - F. Molina et al.: Kyphoplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (VCF). - F. Villarejo et al.: Experience with Coflex interspinous implant. - J. Buric et al.: Diam device for low back pain in degenerative disc disease 24 months' follow-up: - P.P.M. Menchetti et al.: Percutaneous surgical treatment in lumbar spinal stenosis with Aperius(TM) - PercLID(TM). Indications, Surgical Technique and Results. - M. Visocchi: Complex cervico-thoracic spine reconstruction. Personal observation. - S.C.Robertson: Percutaneous vertebral augmentation: stabilitiT(TM) a new delivery system for vertebral fractures. - A. Franzini et al.: Minimally invasive disc preserving surgery in cervical radiculopathies: the posterior microscopic and endoscopic approach. - S. Hellinger: The full endoscopic anterior cervical fusion - a new horizon for the Selective Percutaneous Endoscopic Cervical Decompression. - G. Calopricsco, A. Borean: Leucocyte-platelet haemocomponents for topical use: regenerative potentiality. - G.M. Perretti et al.: Current surgical options forarticular cartilage repair. - L. Lauretti et al.: Facial-Hypoglossal nerve end-to-side neurorrhaphy: anatomical study in rats. - A. Isla: Anatomic study in cadaver of the motor branch of the musculocutaneous nerve. - M. Socolovsky: Exposure of the sciatic nerve in the gluteal region without sectioning the gluteus maximus: an anatomical and microsurgical study. - P. Tos et al.: Experimental and clinical employment of end-to-side coaptation: our experience. - A. Alexandre et al.: Considerations on the treatment of anterior interosseous nerve syndrome. - M. G. Baabor: Percutaneous balloon compression of the Gasserian ganglion for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: personal experience of 206 patients

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