Advanced Peripheral Nerve Surgery and Minimal Invasive Spinal Surgery

Advanced peripheral nerve surgery.- Neurolysis: Is it beneficial or harmful?.- TOS pathophysiology and clinical features.- Post-traumatic thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS).- Brachial plexus injuries: regeneration timing and prognosis in patients without need for urgent operation. Preliminary results on truncus primarius superior.- Thoracic outlet syndrome due to hyperextension-hyperflexion cervical injury.- Whiplash injury. TOS and double crush syndrome. Forensic medical aspects.- Vascular thoracic outlet syndrome staging and treatment.- Suprascapular nerve entrapment.- Multicenter study on carpal tunnel syndrome and pregnancy incidence and natural course.- Endoscopic carpal tunnel release surgery: retrospective study of 390 consecutive cases.- Wrist median nerve motor conduction after end range repeated flexion and extension passive movements in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Pilot study.- Microsurgical treatment of lumbosacral plexus injuries.- Femoral nerve entrapment.- Italian multicentre study of peroneal mononeuropathy at the fibular head: study design and preliminary results.- Entrapment of crural branches of the common peroneal nerve.- Minimal invasive spinal surgery.- Percutaneous cervical nucleoplasty using coblation technology. Clinical results in fifty consecutive cases.- Intradiscal injection of oxygen-ozone gas mixture for the treatment of cervical disc herniations.- Percutaneous nucleoplasty for discoradicular conflict.- CT-guided oxygen-ozone treatment for first degree spondylolisthesis and spondylolysis.- Ozone chemonucleolysis in non-contained lumbar disc herniations.- Micro-endoscopic-discectomy (MED) for far lateral disc herniation in the lumbar spine. Technical note.- A long-term review of 50 patients out of 506 treated with automated percutaneous nucleotomyaccording to onik for lumbar-sacral disc herniation.- Surgical intradiscal decompression without annulotomy in lumbar disc herniation using a coblation device: preliminary results.- CAM versus nucleoplasty.- Paraspinal approach to the far lateral disc herniations: retrospective study on 42 cases.- Surgical radio-frequency epiduroscopy technique (R-ResAblator) and FBSS treatment: preliminary evaluations.- Disc coablation and epidural injection of steroids: a comparison of strategies in the treatment of mechanical spinal discogenic pain.- Preliminary results of a soft novel lumbar intervertebral prothesis (DIAM) in the degenerative spinal pathology.- Lumbar spinal decompression with a pneumatic orthesis (orthotrac): preliminary study.- The different outcomes of patients with disc herniation treated either by microdiscectomy, or by intradiscal ozone injection.- Quality of life, clinical and neurophysiological picture in patients operated on for lumbar stenosis.- Myofascial pain mimicking radicular syndromes.- Prevention of recurrent radicular pain after lumbar disc surgery: a prospective study.