An absolutely successful endoscopic vertebral ligation in a 75-year-old patient, was performed for the first time in our country at the Metropolitan General, by Dr. George Bastardis, MD, PhD, Spine Surgeon, Director of Clinical Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery.
The patient underwent endoscopic vertebral ligation in which intervertebral space stabilization cages were placed at an incision of approximately one centimeter.
Spinal fusion is done to stabilize one or more intervertebral spaces when there is a medical indication for its application. The reason for such an operation can be the instability of one or many intervertebral spaces as well as their erosion and subsidence for many reasons. Reaching this point and deciding which method to use, the least invasive surgery is Endoscopic Spine Surgery, with which, almost all its diseases can be cured.
When a patient needed to have a vertebral ligation until now, by inserting transdermal screws to stabilize the vertebrae, this was usually accompanied – by the surgeon’s decision – and by stabilizing the affected intervertebral space, with special vertebral cages with a bone graft so that the bone was fixed. space and make a proper 360 degree spine ligation.
There are various ways and surgical techniques to place the cage but the least invasive way is to place it from an incision of almost one centimeter. This is achieved with the Endoscopic technique, which is most often done under local anesthesia. By making an endoscopic percutaneous discectomy and shaping the intervertebral space, a special extending cage with a bone graft is placed from the endoscopic working cannula, which stabilizes and indirectly rearranges the space in case of its subsidence.
The patient was mobilized immediately after the operation, the time of placement of the cages was minimal as well as the destruction of the paravertebral elements.
Dr. George Bastardis, MD, PhD, Spine Surgeon, Director of Clinical Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery.
Follow Skai.gr on Google News
and be the first to know all the news
