Procedures

Neurosurgery Scope of Practice Hawaii Spine Institute 6/25/23

  •  Cervical micro-foraminotomy
  • Anterior cervical diskectomy and Interbody fusion (ACDF)
  • Cervical disc arthroplasty
  • Cervical corpectomy 
  • Cervical laminoplasty 
  • Cervical decompressive laminectomy, posterior fixation and fusion
  • Thoracic decompressive laminectomy, posterior fixation and fusion
  • Thoracic lateral diskectomy and interbody fusion, posterior fixation
  • Occipital cervical posterior fixation and fusion, cervical laminectomy
  • Lateral lumbar interbody fusion, internal fixation and posterior fusion
  • Lumbar trans-facet decompression, combined interbody and posterior fusion
  • Lumbar far lateral micro disectomy
  • Lumbar micro-diskectomy and placement of annular closure device (Barricaide)
  • Lumbar micro-diskectomy
  • Lumbar laminotomy and spinal canal decompression
  • Lumbar laminotomy and excision of synovial cyst
  • Lumbar laminotomy and excision of nerve root tumor

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Surgery that is performed in an ambulatory surgical center (ASC) or hospital that does not require a patient to be admitted to a hospital while recovering from surgery.

Neurosurgical Spine Surgery

 Over the past 20 years there had been a neurosurgeon in Hilo on the island of Hawaii and Wailuku on Maui.