Role of minimally invasive surgery for adult spinal deformity in preventing complications

Chun-Po Yen; Yusef I Mosley; Juan S Uribe

doi:10.1007/s12178-016-9355-6

Role of minimally invasive surgery for adult spinal deformity in preventing complications

Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med. 2016 Sep;9(3):309-15. doi: 10.1007/s12178-016-9355-6.

Authors

Chun-Po Yen^{1

2}, Yusef I Mosley¹, Juan S Uribe³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
² Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
³ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA. juribe@health.usf.edu.

Abstract

With the aging population, there is a rising prevalence of degenerative spinal deformity and need of surgical care for these patients. Surgical treatment for adult spinal deformity (ASD) is often fraught with a high rate of complications. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has for the past decade been adopted by spine surgeons to treat ASD in the hopes of reducing access-related morbidity and perioperative complications. The benefits of MIS approach in general and recent development of MIS techniques to avoid long-term complications such as pseudoarthrosis or proximal junctional kyphosis are reviewed.

Keywords: Adult spinal deformity; Complications; Minimally invasive; Sagittal imbalance; Scoliosis.

Publication types

Review