title: Role of minimally invasive surgery for adult spinal deformity in preventing complications.
abstract: With the aging population, there is a rising prevalence of degenerative spinal deformity and need of surgical care for these patients. Surgical treatment for adult spinal deformity (ASD) is often fraught with a high rate of complications. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has for the past decade been adopted by spine surgeons to treat ASD in the hopes of reducing access-related morbidity and perioperative complications. The benefits of MIS approach in general and recent development of MIS techniques to avoid long-term complications such as pseudoarthrosis or proximal junctional kyphosis are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.|Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Chun-Po
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Yen
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Yusef I
authors.initials: YI
authors.lastname: Mosley
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA. juribe@health.usf.edu.
authors.forename: Juan S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Uribe
keywords: Adult spinal deformity; Complications; Minimally invasive; Sagittal imbalance; Scoliosis