Neurology and Neurosurgery

Biography

Biography: Dr.Michele Conti

Abstract

In the last 25 years, the spine surgery is changed, in the past the spine surgeons treated only the discus hernia and vertebral stenosis with the microdiscectomy in according with Caspar technique and with laminectomy. The fusion technique has been used only for scoliosis deformity and for spine injury. The results of the degenerative pathology were not satisfactory and improved with the vertebral fixation with different technique, above all the posterior arthrodesis with pedicle screws and rods 1 The complication of this technique was the degeneration to the upper discus 2 , for this reason improve the technique to replace the discus with cages and obtain an interbody fusion and restore the right sagittal balance with the physiological lordosis. The aim of this study is to describe the surgical anatomy of the lumbar anterior ligament to reach the best placement in the intersomatic space of the expansion cages to reduce the stress on the vertebral bone plates and minimize the risk of subsidence..