Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Techniques

Gabriel Tender was born in 1968 in Craiova, Romania, and gained his medical degree there, before undertaking a neurosurgery residency at the Institute of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Bucharest, Romania and then moving to the USA. He completed surgical internships at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA and then a neurosurgery residency at Louisiana State University, New Orleans. He was then a fellow researching pain inhibition at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD. He is currently a Staff Neurosurgeon at several hospitals in new Orleans and Director, Trauma Neurosurgery Program, University Hospital Campus of Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, Director, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Program, University Hospital Campus of Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans.

• Introduction to minimally invasive spinal surgery techniques.- Lumbar discectomy.- Lumbar facetectomy.- Lumbar parsectomy.- Lumbar laminectomy.- TLIF (transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion).- XLIF (extreme lateral interbody fusion).- AxiaLIF (presacral L5-S1 fusion).- Percutaneous lumbar pedicle screw insertion.- Percutaneous lumbar facet screw insertion.- Lateral retroperitoneal lumbar corpectomy.- Percutaneous thoracic pedicle screw insertion.- Lateral retropleural thoracic corpectomy.- Posterior cervical foraminotomy.- Posterior cervical fusion (D-TRAX).