In recent years, minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) has been quickly developed, with its concepts and techniques playing increasingly important roles in clinical practice. Compared with open spine surgery, MISS has outstanding advantages including smaller aggression, less blood loss, faster recovery and shorter hospital stay. There is a strong demand for studies in this field. MISS involves, besides spinal endoscopic surgery, all kinds of novel techniques such as minimally invasive pedicle screw fixation (MIPS), percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP), percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP), minimally invasive surgery-transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF), oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) and mini-open surgery, which could be performed to treat various spinal pathologies. With the improvement of its concepts and techniques, more innovations have occurred, and its indications are ever-expanding. MIPS, PVP or PKP, initially for thoracic or lumbar fracture, are further applied to treat spinal metastatic tumors; MIS-TLIF, once treated lumbar degenerations, helps with the treatment of extradural dumbbell tumors and lumbar fracture; OLIF is being adopted to treat lumbar spondylolisthesis as well as spinal infection such as tuberculosis and lumbar degenerative scoliosis.
In addition, navigation or robotic-assisted, microscope-assisted spine surgery and non-fusion of elastic fixation should also be included in minimally invasive techniques, all of which can be beneficial to the patients in decreasing the subsidiary injury, or keeping spinal movement and so on.
This research topic focuses on MISS’s novel techniques, including MIPS, OLIF, MIS-TLIF, PVP, PKP, navigation or robotic-assisted, microscope-assisted spine surgery and non-fusion of elastic fixation. This special issue will cover almost all aspects of MISS treatment of spine trauma, degeneration, metastatic tumors, infection and deformity. The goal is to generate an updated concept of MISS, describe the novel technique, and optimize MISS procedures for various spinal diseases, which may further encourage the development of additional innovations in the field.
We welcome submissions of original research on new concepts, surgical skills, technological advances as well as expanded indications for the treatment of different spinal pathologies with MISS except for endoscopy. Topics of interest include the following techniques and attempts applied in different pathologies:
• Minimally invasive pedicle screw fixation (MIPS)
• Minimally invasive interbody fusion technique (OLIF, MIS-TLIF, etc.)
• Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP)
• Mini-open surgery
• Navigation or Robotic-assisted minimally invasive spine surgery
• Microscope-assisted minimally invasive spine surgery
• Non-fusion technique (elastic fixation)
In recent years, minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) has been quickly developed, with its concepts and techniques playing increasingly important roles in clinical practice. Compared with open spine surgery, MISS has outstanding advantages including smaller aggression, less blood loss, faster recovery and shorter hospital stay. There is a strong demand for studies in this field. MISS involves, besides spinal endoscopic surgery, all kinds of novel techniques such as minimally invasive pedicle screw fixation (MIPS), percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP), percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP), minimally invasive surgery-transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF), oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) and mini-open surgery, which could be performed to treat various spinal pathologies. With the improvement of its concepts and techniques, more innovations have occurred, and its indications are ever-expanding. MIPS, PVP or PKP, initially for thoracic or lumbar fracture, are further applied to treat spinal metastatic tumors; MIS-TLIF, once treated lumbar degenerations, helps with the treatment of extradural dumbbell tumors and lumbar fracture; OLIF is being adopted to treat lumbar spondylolisthesis as well as spinal infection such as tuberculosis and lumbar degenerative scoliosis.
In addition, navigation or robotic-assisted, microscope-assisted spine surgery and non-fusion of elastic fixation should also be included in minimally invasive techniques, all of which can be beneficial to the patients in decreasing the subsidiary injury, or keeping spinal movement and so on.
This research topic focuses on MISS’s novel techniques, including MIPS, OLIF, MIS-TLIF, PVP, PKP, navigation or robotic-assisted, microscope-assisted spine surgery and non-fusion of elastic fixation. This special issue will cover almost all aspects of MISS treatment of spine trauma, degeneration, metastatic tumors, infection and deformity. The goal is to generate an updated concept of MISS, describe the novel technique, and optimize MISS procedures for various spinal diseases, which may further encourage the development of additional innovations in the field.
We welcome submissions of original research on new concepts, surgical skills, technological advances as well as expanded indications for the treatment of different spinal pathologies with MISS except for endoscopy. Topics of interest include the following techniques and attempts applied in different pathologies:
• Minimally invasive pedicle screw fixation (MIPS)
• Minimally invasive interbody fusion technique (OLIF, MIS-TLIF, etc.)
• Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP)
• Mini-open surgery
• Navigation or Robotic-assisted minimally invasive spine surgery
• Microscope-assisted minimally invasive spine surgery
• Non-fusion technique (elastic fixation)