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This book presents an updated perspective on spinal implants currently used in thoraco-lumbar spine surgery, leading to a rigid or dynamic spine fusion. The development of new surgical devices and techniques is mostly focused on a spinal fusion for lumbar instability due to trauma, tumours or degenerative or infectious diseases. Pedicle-screw fixation and fusion are currently considered to be the gold standard for most of the above-mentioned pathologies, and modern implants are designed to improve the accuracy of pedicle-screw placement and to allow the use of new surgical techniques and minimally invasive approaches. The content is relevant for surgeons, orthopaedic specialists, neurosurgeons, physiotherapists and osteopaths.

Spinal fusion. --- Thoracic vertebrae. --- Dorsal vertebrae --- Thoracic spine --- Vertebrae, Thoracic --- Vertebrae thoracicae --- Spondylosyndesis --- Medicine. --- Neurology. --- Neurosurgery. --- Surgery. --- Minimally invasive surgery. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Minimally Invasive Surgery. --- General Surgery. --- Vertebrae --- Arthrodesis --- Spine --- Surgery --- Endoscopic surgery. --- Surgery, Primitive --- Medicine --- Nervous system --- Neuropsychiatry --- Endosurgery --- Minimal access surgery --- Minimally invasive surgery --- MIS (Minimally invasive surgery) --- Operative endoscopy --- Surgical endoscopy --- Endoscopy --- Microsurgery --- Surgery, Operative --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Diseases --- Neurology .