Recent advances in minimally invasive spinal internal fixation

Abstract

With the acceleration of population aging, the incidence of spinal degenerative diseases increased year by year. Economic and social development and the improvement of medical insurance policy also created conditions of medical treatment for the majority of patients in urban and rural area. Therefore, neurospine surgery has been developing very rapidly in recent years. Neurospine surgery is an important part of neurosurgery. It not only focus on lesion resection and ecompression of the nerve, but also pay attention to the protection and reconstruction of spinal stability. Minimally invasive spine surgery is an important part and development direction of neurospine surgery, including minimally invasive techniques of decompression and internal fixation. This paper probes into a brief introduction of commonly used minimally invasive spinal internal fixation technology in recent years. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2016.04.003

Keywords

• Spinal diseases
• Spinal fusion
• Internal fixation (not in MeSH)
• Surgical procedures, minimally invasive
• Review