New Surgical Tools: Navigation meets MIS
• Navigation Basics for Clinicians
• Does navigated Pedicle Screw placement reduce future revision?
• How should you learn MIS and Navigation techniques? – The learning curve
• Debate: Navigation vs Mechanical Guides – Which is better?
Advanced uses of Navigation in Spine Surgery
• Navigation in Cervical Spine
• Navigated Disc Replacement – Is it needed for accurate disc placement?
• Biomechanical Perspective
• Clinical Perspective
• Navigation: Pitfalls and Tricks
Biological Solutions: Tissue Engineering meets MIS and Navigation
• Biomaterials in MIS
• Clinical Perspectives on Tissue Engineering
• BMP in MIS
• Debate: Are Biomaterials needed in MIS?
MIS Trauma Management
• Management of high velocity fractures with Balloon Kyphoplasty
• Vertebroplasty and Balloon Kyphoplasty in osteoporotic fractures
• MIS stabilization of vertebral fractures
• Debate: Is early intervention in minor compression fractures necessary?
Endoscopic Spine Surgery – Trauma
• Endoscopic vertebrectomy and cage reconstruction
• Limits of endoscopic surgery in thoracic spine trauma
• Debate: Open vs. Endoscopic Thoracic Stabilization: Which is better?
Endoscopic Spine Surgery – Degeneration
• Endoscopic Discectomy
• Endoscope assisted anterior or lateral spinal fusion
• Pitfalls and Tricks in Endoscopic Spine Surgery
Minimal Access Surgery in Degenerative Spine
• MIS Posterolateral fusion
• MIS PLIF and TLIF
• Minimal Invasive Discectomy
• Neucleoplasty– does it function and has it a role?
• MIS Cervical Spine Decompression and fixation
Deformity
• Why MAS in deformity?
• Endoscopic Scoliosis correction
• Debate: Should MAS be used in deformity?
Advances in Non Fusion stabilization
• Minimal access anterior disc replacement
• Minimal access posterior disc replacement
• Posterior dynamic stabilization
• Minimal invasive interspinous spacer. Early experiences
Spinal Tumours
• Modern concepts in Spinal tumour management
• Balloon Kyphoplasty in multiple myeloma and spinal tumours.
• Cyber Knife and Balloon Kyphoplasty ?
• Navigated resection of sacral tumours
