Minimally Invasive Surgery in Orthopedics

What is minimally invasive surgery and how do you learn it?.- Section I. The Upper Extremities.- Overview of shoulder approaches: choosing between mini-incision and arthroscopic techniques.- Mini-incision bankart repair.- Mini-open rotator cuff repair.- Minimally invasive treatment of greater tuberosity fractures.- Mini-incision fixation of proximal humeral four-part fractures.- Mini-incision shoulder arthroplasty.- Overview of elbow approaches: small incisions or arthroscopic portals.- Mini-incision medial collateral ligament reconstruction of the elbow.- Mini-incision distal biceps tendon repair.- Minimally invasive approaches for complex elbow trauma.- Minimally invasive approaches for latereal epicondylitis.- Overview of wrist and hand approaches: indications for minimally invasive techniques.- Minimally invsaive fixation for wrist fractures.- Endoscopic and minimally invasive carpal tunnel and trigger finger release.- Round table discussion of minimally invasive surgery upper exteremity cases.- Section II: The Hip.- Anterolateral mini-incision total hip arthroplasty.- Minimallyy invasive total hip arthroplasty with the anterior surgical approach.- The Watson-Jones approach to minimally invasive total hip arthroplasty.- Posterolateral mini-incision total hip arthroplasty.- Minimally invasive approach to metal-on-metal total hip resurfacing arthroplasty.- MIS approach for hip resurfacing.- Minimally invasive total hip arthroplast using the two-incision approach.- Round table discussion of mini-incision total hip arthroplasty.- Section III: The Knee.- MIS undicondylar arthroplasty: the bone-sparing technique.- Minimally invasive surgery for the unicondylar knee arthroplasty: the intramedullary technique.- MIS unicondylar knee arthroplasty with the extramedullary technique.- MIS arthroplasty with the UniSpacer.- MIS TKA with the limited medial parapatellar arthrotomy.- MIS TKA with a subvastus approach.- Mini-midvastus total knee arthroplasty.- Minimally invasive total knee arthroplasty: suspended leg approach and arthroscopic assisted techniques.- Quadriceps sparing total knee arthroplasty.- Minimally invasive quadriceps sparing total knee replacement preseving the posterior cruciate ligament.- Bi-unicompartmental knee prostheses.- MIS patellofemoral arthroplasty.- Round table discussion of MIS total knee arthroplasty.- Section IV: The Foot and Ankle.- Percutaneous repair of acute rupture of Achilles tendon.- Endoscopic gastrocnemius recession.- Percutaneous reduction and internal fixation of the Lisfranc fracture-disclocation.- Arthroscopic subtalar arthrodesis: indications and technique.- Minimally invasive ankle arthrodesis.- Arthroscpic ankle arthrodesis.- Endoscopic calcaneoplaasty.- Arthroscopy of the first metatarsophalangeal joint.- Arthroscopy of the first metatarsophalangeal joint.- Endoscopic plantar fasciotomy.- Uniportal endoscopic decompression of the interdigital nerve for Morton's neuroma.- Percutaneous Z Tendo Achillis lengthening.- Percutaneous distraction osteogenesis for treatment f brachymetatarsia.- Minimally invasive realignment surgery for the Charcot foot.- Percutanous supramalleolar osteotomy using the Ilizarov/Taylor spatial frame.- Hallux valgus surgery: the minimally invasaive bunion correction.- Minimally invasive closed reduction and internal fixation of calcaneal fractures.- Minimall invasive ORIF of Calcaneal fractures.- Minimal dual incision ORIF of the calcaneus.- Percutaneous screw fixation of hallux sesamoid fractures.- Proximal percutaneous harvesting of plantaris tendon.- Percutaneous ORIF of periarticular distal tibia fractures.- Round table discussion of MIS of the foot and ankle.- Section V: The Spine.- Minimally invasive spinal surgery: evidence based review of the literature.- Endoscopic foraminoplasty: key to understanding the sources of back pain and sciatica and their treatment.- Minimally invas