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Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Spine Surgery Center

The technology used in minimally invasive and endoscopic spine surgery is a revolutionary breakthrough in medicine, representing a surgery integrating high-tech and art. The small incision wound subverting the centipede-shaped wound scar significantly improves patient's postoperative pain, hospital stay and healthcare costs. Nevertheless, minimally invasive spine surgeryrequires relatively high technicality which might not be performed by every surgeon, it is necessary to acquire professional healthcare experience and receive trainings in settings with comprehensive equipment to perform minimally invasive surgery without any safety and security concerns. Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Spine Surgery Center was established in 2010 under the leadership of the Chief, Dr. Chien-Min Chen, we expect to offer better healthcare quality for patients, enabling CCH to build up another milestone in spinal healthcare.

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Minimally invasive spine surgery started the development roughly since 1980, with the advanced optical instrument, surgical apparatus and techniques up to the present, which further integrates navigation system,intraoperative computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)to facilitate the development of minimally invasive spine surgery. Presently, minimally invasive spine surgery has been increasingly used in more spinal diseases, such as degenerative disc disease, spinal fracture, tumor, infection, unstable spine, and spinal deformity. As for conventional spinal surgery, the underlying problems include not only the relatively larger wounds, but also dissection and retraction of muscles and ligaments adhered to the spine during the surgery, blood loss problem and removal of more portion of vertebra, which all lead to destruction of originally anatomical structure resulting in slower wound healing, more severe postoperative pain, and higher postoperative infection rates, further causing elevated hospital stay and increased healthcare costs.
Minimally invasive spine surgery presently involvespercutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy,percutaneous vertebroplasty, percutaneous kyphoplasty, mini-transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, minimally invasive percutaneous pedicle screw fixation, and image navigated surgery.
Minimally invasive spine surgery primarily aims to achieve the identical treatment efficacy as performed by conventional surgery or even superior, it uses advanced facilities and chooses appropriate pathways through a natural body passage or orifice, minimizing tissue trauma to achieve so-called “Target surgery” which results in shortened hospital stay, less pain, sooner recovery, less blood loss, reduced infection rate, facilitating the overall restored functionality.