Practice of Spinal Surgery

P-179: Spinal Anesthesia in Laparoscopic Surgery of Infertile Patients

Background: Laparoscopy is one of the most common surgical procedures. General anesthesia as the only suitable technique for laparoscopic procedures is a concept of the past. A problem with modern general anesthetics is that even though patients can be awake and oriented shortly after cessation of the anesthetic. There is growing evidence suggesting that regional anesthesia has an important rol...

Anterior spinal surgery alone in the surgical treatment of thoracolumbar spinal tuberculosis: a prospective study

 Background: One of the important sites for extrapulmonary TB involvement is the skeleton. Tuberculous spondylitis (Pott’s disease) comprises 50-70% of the skeletal tuberculosis. Methods: In this case series study, we prospectively investigated the result of anterior surgery alone (anterior debridement, fusion and instrumentation) in the patients with spinal tuberculosis. The patients with imma...

Spinal Anaesthesia in Spinal Surgery

assessing quality of life in spinal surgery

The Practice of Surgery