Spinal Microsurgery and Cervical Spine Surgery: Recent Developments and Emerging Trends

Dear Colleagues,

I am proud to announce this Special Issue dealing with recent advances in cervical spine surgery and, more extensively, spinal microsurgery. New trends and developments have emerged for both preoperative/ intraoperative diagnosis and monitoring in neuroimaging, neurophysiology and the use and availability of intraoperative complex surgical tools. You are invited to provide an updated contribution for a modern definition of spinal surgery. From a simplified anatomic point of view, the skull base along with its offshoot, the spine, replicate a bone funnel as a vessel sustaining the brain, the cerebellum and the spinal cord along with cranial and radicular nerves. There is no doubt at all that knowledge of the embryology, anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and more effective surgical pathways to engage and remove surgical diseases is of paramount importance in the surgical cultural heritage; its pursuit is thus strongly encouraged and supported amongst neurosurgeons.

Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Visocchi
Guest Editor

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• craniocervical spine
• cervical spine
• complex spine surgery
• new trends and technologies