Spinal endoscopy has the stigma of being reserved for only a few surgeons who can figure
out how to master the steep learning curve and develop clinical practice settings where …

Background Regional differences in acceptance and utilization of MISST by spine surgeons
may have an impact on clinical decision-making and the surgical treatment of common …

Background: Incidental dural tears during lumbar endoscopy can be challenging to manage.
There is limited literature on their appropriate management, risk factors, and the clinical …

Background: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have become widely used to better
measure patients' judgment of treatment benefits from surgical spine care. The concept of …

Background The indications and contraindications to the endoscopic transforaminal
approach for lumbar spinal stenosis are not well defined. Methods We performed a Kaplan-Meier …

Purpose Bone and joint infections, complicated by the burgeoning challenge of antimicrobial
resistance (AMR), pose significant public health threats by amplifying the disease burden …

Background A diseased lumbar intervertebral vacuum disc void of any structurally intact
tissue may be vertically unstable. A primary standalone endoscopic decompression and …

Background This study aimed to analyze the motivators and obstacles to the implementation
of minimally invasive spinal surgery techniques (MISST) by spinal surgeons. Motivators and …

Background Durotomy during endoscopic spine surgery can cause a patient’s neurological
or cardiovascular status to deteriorate unexpectedly intra- or postoperatively. There is …

Personalized care models are dominating modern medicine. These models are rooted in
teaching future physicians the skill set to keep up with innovation. In orthopedic surgery and …