Xiao Di, Alan Sui, Rodolfo Hakim, Maode Wang, Jan Peter Warnke Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. Department of Neurosurgery, Paracelsus Klinik Zwickau, Germany PMID: 22456199 DOI: 10.1159/000336019 Abstract Background/aims: The field of minimally invasive neurosurgery has grown dramatically especially in the last decades. This has been possible, in the most part, due […]
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Endoscopic minimally invasive neurosurgery: emerging techniques and expanding role through an extensive review of the literature and our own experience – part I: intraendoscopic neurosurgery
Xiao Di, Alan Sui, Rodolfo Hakim, Maode Wang, Jan Peter Warnke Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. Department of neurosurgery, Paracelsus Klinik Zwickau, Germany PMID: 22456186 DOI: 10.1159/000336017 Abstract Background/aims: Minimally invasive neurosurgery is a growing field, more so in recent decades. The modernization of tools, especially the endoscope, has allowed for critical […]
Use of an endoscope for spinal intradural pathology
Toshiki Endo, Teiji Tominaga Department of Neurosurgery, Sendai Medical Center, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Department of Neurosurgery, Tohoku University, Graduate school of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. PMID: 32656387 PMCID: PMC7340816 DOI: 10.21037/jss.2020.01.0 Abstract The endoscope has been increasingly used to treat various spinal diseases. However, the application of spinal endoscopy in an intradural lesion has been […]
Flexible endoscopy in surgical treatment of spinal adhesive arachnoiditis and arachnoid cysts
A A Kashcheev, S O Arestov, A O Gushcha Research Center of Neurology, Moscow, Russia. PMID: 24564085 Abstract Thecaloscopy is less invasive exploration of spinal subarachnoid space with ultra-thin flexible endoscope and endoscopic fenestration of scars and adhesions. Thecalopscopy was used in Russian neurosurgery at the first time. Since 2009 we operated 32 patients with […]