InhaltsangabeGeneral: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery.- Technologic Advances of Surgical Microscopes for Spine Surgery.- Spinal Microsurgery - A Short Introduction.- Microsurgical Instruments.- Operating Room Setup and Handling of the Microscope.- Computer Assisted Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery - State of the Art. Techniques: Cervical Spine: Odontoid: The Technique of Transoral Odontoidectomy.- Microsurgical Treatment of Odontoid Fractures. Disc Surgery / Decompression: Microsurgery of the Cervical Spine: The Anterior Approach.- Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy.- Functional Segmental Reconstruction with the Bryan Total Cervical DiscTM.- Microsurgical Total Cervical Disc Replacement. Microsurgical Posterior Approaches to the Cervical Spine. Microsurgical C1/2 stabilization. Thoracic/Thoraco-Lumbar Spine: General Techniques: The Microsurgical Anterior Approach to T5-T10 (Mini-TTA).- Microsurgical Anterior Approach to the Thoraco-Lumbar Junction.- Anatomic Principles of Thoracoscopic Spine Surgery.- Principles of Endoscopic Techniques in the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine.- Biomechanical Requirements in Minimally Invasive Spinal Fracture Treatment. Deformities: Thoracoscopic Approaches in Spinal Deformities and Trauma. Thoracoscopic Techniques in Spinal Deformities.- Mini-open Endoscopic Excision of Hemivertebrae.- Fractures: Thoracoscopic-Assisted Anterior Approach to Thoracolumbar Fractures.- Minimal Invasive but Open Approach to the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine.- Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures.- Microsurgical Open Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty.- Pecutaneous Vertebroplasty in Traumatic Fractures. Lumbar Spine: Low Back Pain: Semi-Invasive Procedures for Low Back Pain and Disc Herniation. Disc: Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET).- Microtherapy In Low Back Pain.- Principles of Microsurgical Discectomy in Lumbar Disc Herniations.- The Microsurgical Interlaminar, Paramedian Approach.- The translaminar approach.- The Lateral, Extraforaminal Approach.- Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy.- Microscope-assisted Percutaneous Technique as Minimally Invasive Approach to the Posterior Spine.- Arthroscopic and Endoscopic Spinal Surgery via a Posterolateral Approach.- The Endoscopic Interlaminar Approach.- Outpatient Microsurgical Lumbar Discectomy and Microdecompression Laminoplasty. Disc Reconstruction: Nucleus Reconstruction by Autologeous Chondrocyte Transplantation.- Autologous Disc Chondrocyte Transplantation.- The ALPA Approach for Minimal Invasive Nucleus Pulposus Replacement. Mini-open Midline Accesses for Lumbar Total Disc Replacement. Spinal Stenosis: Microsurgical Decompression of Acquired (Degenerative) Central and Lateral Spinal Canal Stenosis. Fusion: Microsurgical Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (MINIALIF) - The Retroperitoneal Approach to L2/3, L3/4, and L4/5.- Microsurgical Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: The Transperitoneal Approach to L5/S1.- Minimal invasive 360° Lumbar Fusion.- The Anterior Extraperitoneal Video-Assisted Approach to the Lumbar Spine. Dynamic Stabilization: Minimally invasive Dynamic Stabilization of the Lumbar Motion Segment with an Interspinous Implant.- Technical and Anatomical Considerations for the Placement of a Posterior Interspinous Stabilizer. -Elastic Microsurgical Stabilization with Posterior Shock Absorber.