An attempt at clinically defining and assessing minimally invasive surgery compared with traditional “open” spinal surgery

Volume: 5, Issue: 4, Pages: 125 - 130
Published: Dec 1, 2011
Abstract
The goal of this editorial and literature review is to define the term "minimally invasive surgery" (MIS) as it relates to the spine and characterize methods of measuring parameters of a spine MIS technique.This report is an analysis of 105,845 cases of spinal surgery in unmatched series and 95,161 cases in paired series of open compared with MIS procedures performed by the same surgeons to develop quantitative criteria to analyze the success of...
Paper Details
Title
An attempt at clinically defining and assessing minimally invasive surgery compared with traditional “open” spinal surgery
Published Date
Dec 1, 2011
Volume
5
Issue
4
Pages
125 - 130
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