Description

About the book:

 Endoscopic Spine Surgery—Destandau’s Technique provides a detailed and critical analysis of the Destandau’s Technique, a pure endoscopic technique developed and popularized by eminent French neurospine surgeon. The benefi ts of this technique include achieving higher mobility and wider reach of spinal defects despite minimal invasion, better management of underlying compressive pathology, quicker patient recovery, lesser blood loss, and increased spinal stability.

Key Features:

•  Explains the latest advancement and future of 3D imaging, and also the use of ultrasonic bone dissector in Destandau’s Technique.
  
• Documents cases and their surgical results in a clear, systematic manner.
  
• Covers basics as well as advanced aspects of the technique extensively, thereby making it useful for new as well as experienced surgeons.
  

This book is an outstanding resource for orthopedic fellows and residents, as well as clinicians specializing in spine surgery

 About the Author:

Shrinivas Mahadeo Rohidas is Director and Chairman of Dr Rohidas’ Center for Minimally Invasive Spine and Neurosurgery, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. He is an expert in Dr Destandau’s technique and is actively training doctors in it at his center as well as across the globe through numerous workshops. He is currently the Vice President of World Endoscopic Spine Society (WESS). He was a faculty for World Congress of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Techniques (WACMISST), at Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as a faculty for cadaver course of Endoscopic Spine at CTRF-Cadaver Training Research Facility at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

 Jean Destandau is currently President of World Endoscopic Spine Society (WESS) and a consultant neurospine surgeon. He has over 35 years of clinical experience, with special interest in the surgery of brain tumors, disc herniation, and the reduction of operative trauma in their treatment. Towards this objective, he developed the Destandau’s Technique, an endoscopic technique which this book covers. Since 1993, he has operated around 10,000 cases using this technique with a success rate close to 90–95 percent and a successively decreasing postoperative period of convalescence.