Chapter 1 Surgeries Involving C1 and C2

a. Posterior C1-2 instrumentation and fusion techniques

b. Occipito-cervical fusion

c. Far lateral transcondylar approaches

d. Trans-oral approaches to C1-2

e. Chiari decompression

Chapter 2 Sub-Axial Cervical Procedures

a. Approaches to high cervical pathologies- anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (C3-4)

b. Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

c. Posterior cervical laminectomy and fusion

d. Anterior and posterior cervical spine surgery (360 degrees)

e. Anterior approaches to low cervical spine pathologies- cervico-thoracic junction

f. Cervical spine deformity correction surgeries- corpectomies, osteotomies

Chapter 3-Scoliosis Correction

Chapter 4-Thoracic Spine Surgery

a. Thoracic microdiscectomy

b. Thoracic corpectomies- trans-thoracic, thoraco-abdominal and extra-cavitary approaches

c. Kyphoplasty

Chapter 5-Lumbar Spine Surgery

a. Lumbar microdiscectomy

b. Lumbar laminectomy

c. Lumbar fusion techniques- TLIF, PLIF, LLIF, ALIF

d. Deformity corrections in the lumbar spine

e. Lumbar corpectomies- retroperitoneal approach

Chapter 6-Minimally Invasive Approaches

a. Posterior cervical lamino-foraminotomy

b. Anterior cervical foraminotomy

c. MIS spinal fusion techniques- TLIF and LLIF

d. MIS microdiscectomy and laminectomy

e. MIS deformity corrections including corpectomy

Chapter 7-Tumors of the Spine

a. Primary spine tumors

b. Extradural extramedullary tumors

c. intradural extramedullary tumors

d. Intradural intramedullary tumors

a. Metastatic spine tumors: surgical decision