Luis M. Tumialan - Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: A Primer

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Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

A Primer

Luis Manuel Tumialn, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Barrow Neurological Institute

St. Josephs Hospital and Medical Center

Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Greenbaum Surgical Specialty Hospital

HonorHealth Neuroscience Research Institute

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Illustrated by Joshua Lai, MScBMC

Medical Illustrator

Neuroscience Publications

Barrow Neurological Institute

St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center

Phoenix, Arizona

530 illustrations

Thieme

New York Stuttgart Delhi Rio de Janeiro

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tumialn, Luis Manuel, author. | Lai, Joshua, illustrator.

Title: Minimally invasive spine surgery : a primer / Luis Manuel Tumialn;

illustrator, Joshua Lai.

Description: New York : Thieme [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: "The purpose of thiswork is to be a readable cohesive single-authored introductory text that discusses the principles of minimally invasive spine surgery and then explains the technique procedure by procedure. It is the goal for the reader to experience each chapter as if they are in the operating roomwith the author. Thehope is that thewords fromthebook become the voice inside the resident's head as they see, learn and eventually perform the procedure. This work is written as if the author were actually teaching the resident in a rotation. He begins discussing the philosophical approach to minimally invasive spinal surgery as compared to open procedures and the mindset that one should apply. He then walks the reader through the basic procedures, such as microdiscectomies and laminectomies. Principles introduced in early chapters are reinforced in the later chapters; in this manner, the earlier chapters become the building blocks for the later chapters. This is analogous to resident education, where onewould teach a resident a minimally invasive microdiscectomy before going into a lumbar fusion. Each chapter has narrated video for review" Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019053438 | ISBN 9781626232181 hardcover | ISBN 9781626232198 eISBN

Subjects: MESH: Spinesurgery | Minimally Invasive Surgical Proceduresmethods | Orthopedic Proceduresmethods

Classification: LCC RD768 | NLM WE 725 | DDC 617.4/71dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019053438

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Barrow Neurological Institute holds copyright to all diagnostic images, photographs, intraoperative videos, animations, and art, including the cover art, used in this work and the accompanying digital content, unless otherwise stated. Used with permission from Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona.

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Cover art designed by Luis Manuel Tumialn and Joshua Lai;
illustrated by Joshua Lai
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Also available as an e-book: eISBN 978-1-62623-219-8

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