C1 Lateral Mass Fixation: A Comparison of Constructs - from Department of Neurological Surgery at University of California San Francisco.

Cervical corpectomy (Anterior approach) - by dr. Paolo Regolo, Italy.

Cervical meningioma (Posterior approach) - by dr. Paolo Regolo, Italy.

Cervical microdiscectomy (anterior approach) - by dr. Paolo Regolo, Italy.

Cervical solitary plasmocytoma (Vertebrectomy and arthrodesis anterior route) - by dr. Paolo Regolo, Italy.

Lumbar disc herniation - by dr. Ed Zerati, Brazil.

Information from NeurosurgeryCNS:

Demonstrating the set-up and use of the HD-XOscope during a single level anterior cervical diskectomy (C5-6, case 7). The magnified surgical views were taken directly from the HD-XOscope and transferred to DVD prior to editing. The video demonstrates the ability to perform the diskectomy, as well as placement of an inter-body graft and spinal instrumentation under direct high definition magnified view, and without the need to move the scope out of the field of view during placement of instrumentation. The image quality seen on the video is less than that typical seen with the XO-scope because the video capture device is unable to acquire HD images.

This information has been taken from INITIAL CLINICAL EXPERIENCE WITH A HIGH DEFINITION EXOSCOPE SYSTEM FOR MICRONEUROSURGERY, a manuscript scheduled to be published in the August 2010 issue of Neurosurgery. It was submitted by corresponding author Adam N. Mamelak, M.D., from the Departments of Neurosurgery and Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA.

Minimally invasive approach to intradural tumors using the transmuscular dilating tubes by Dr Mannion et al.

Left L5-S1 Lumbar Microdiscectomy by Dr Daher, Dr Royett, and Dr Ocando, Fundación Carabobena de Neurocirugia, Centro Médico Dr. Rafael Guerra Mendez, Valencia, Venezuela.

Herniated Lumbar Disc - hemilaminectomy by dr Edson Zerati, Brazil.

Lumbar microdiscectomy by Assoc Prof T.A. Birbilis, Univ Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece.

Surgery of thoracic spine (T7-T8) meningioma - by P.G. Papanikolaou and T.S. Paleologos, General Hospital of Nikea - Piraeus, Athens, Greece.

Surgical Approaches to Intramedullary Cavernous Malformations of the Spinal Cord by Robert F. Spetzler et al from the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

Thoracic meningeoma (Posterior approach) - by dr. Paolo Regolo, Italy.

Thoracoscopic Discectomy - from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.