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Journal of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Research | Volume 4
September 03-04, 2019 | London, UK
Spine and Spinal Disorders
4
th
International Conference on
J Neurol Neurorehabil Res, Volume 4
L
umbar Spine Degenerative Disorders with radiculopathy is
an increasingly common pathology in the World, and the
most common indication for spinal surgery in patients older
than 65 years. Conservative therapies are often successful
although about 20% of the patients may require surgical
decompression. The conventional surgical technique of
decompressive laminectomy and foraminotomy and fusion
with pedicular screws and lumbar interbody fusion is a
successful procedure, but carries significant risk of surgical
morbidity and complications, specially muscle atrophy and
denervation and chronic low back pain. In this scenario,
the extreme lateral and the anterior interbody fusion
(XLIF and ALIF) techniques allows direct access to the disc
space with minimal tissue destruction and no disruption of
posterior paraspinal musculature, facilitating indirect spinal
decompression, with promising results. Nevertheless, there
are several aspects of these procedures that have to be
studied, and the areas covered in this lecture are: anatomical
understandings of the anterior and lateral approach, safety
andoutcomesstudiedsofarandcostsofthenewtechnologies.
Speaker Biography
Gibran Franzoni Rufca has completed his degree in Medicine and
Neurosurgery from the School of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto. He
lives in the State of São Paulo and my main institution is the Hospital Santa
Casa de Ourinhos, where his team and I provide neurosurgical treatments,
mainly for the pathologies of the vertebral column. He is currently doing
his master's degree student in the Post-Graduation Program of the
University of São Paulo - Campus Botucatu; working in the research of pain
and minimally invasive surgeries of the spine, under the coordination of
Prof. Dr. Flávio Ramalho Romero.
e:
gibran.rufca@gmail.comGibran Franzoni Rufca
Hospital Santa Casa de Ourinhos, Brazil
Novelties in XLIF and ALIF as minimally invasive treatments for
Lumbar Spine Degenerative Disorders