pine Surgery has been improving during all its history in aspects related to techniques and surgical approaches to treat different pathologies. This improvement has been determinant specially during the last two decades.
As in other surgery areas, the adoption of minimally invasive technologies like laparoscopy, arthroscopy or endoscopy has received more and more atention as an attractive alternative to the traditional approaches.
Minimally Invasive Spine (MIS) Surgery has evolved with the hope to speed recovery and improve the final surgical result using techniques that preserve the soft tissue envelope and minimize the approach-related trauma.
In some spinal pathologies, the advantages of using minimal invasive techniques seem to be clear but there are others in which there is still controversy. Some of these controverted areas are Spine Deformity, Degenerative Lumbar Spine and Thoracic and Thoraco-Lumbar Pathology.
With this in mind, we organize this International Spine Meeting. We will deal with the use of all the techniques to resolve these pathologies in the format of debate lectures and preferred options. We have the participation of international experts on all this fields and hope that the program and the final contents we have put together will satisfy the expectations of all the attendants.
Scientific Secretary