SPONDYLOLISTHESIS SURGERY TECHNIQUE Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A61B17/56 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to traumatological orthopaedics and neurosurgery, and can be used for spondylolisthesis surgery. The operation starts with surgical approach to a surface of the first sacral vertebra through incised coccygeal region. Two guided titanium screws are inserted through S₁ into the body of the fifth lumbar vertebra. Anterior dislocation L₅ is corrected by screwing up to spondylolysis level. The guides are inserted in-between ventral posterior abdominal wall covering rectum of colon loop and dorsal anterior surface of sacrum to S₁ by midline in anteroposterior direction parallel to vertebral axis and in lateral direction at the angle 20-25° from vertebral axis. Two canals are formed by each side of the vertebral midline in body Si and the fifth lumbar vertebra.

EFFECT: application of the given method allows improving therapeutic effect of the surgery ensured by eliminated injuries of paraspinal muscles, peritoneum, vertebral bodies, their ligaments and joints are not excised; there is enabled more adequate fixation of vertebra with eliminated damage of surrounding soft tissues, vessels, nervous structures.

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