Indirect Decompression in Spine Surgery: An Increasingly Popular Technique

Sunil Kukreja

Department of Orthopaedic Spine, University at Buffalo Neurosurgery, USA

Sunil Kukreja, Department of Orthopaedic Spine, University at Buffalo Neurosurgery, USA.

Keywords: Spine; Fusion Surgery; Neural Injury

Abstract

Spinal decompression surgery alone or in combination with fusion surgery (instrumented or uninstrumented) has been the mainstay of the treatment for the majority of degenerative spinal conditions. Nevertheless, the direct decompression techniques are associated with a greater risk of complications, which mainly include bleeding, inadvertent durotomy, neural injury, epidural fibrosis and spinal instability [1]. Due to the same reason, the surgeons are inclining towards the indirect methods of decompression.

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