Occasional long-form writing on the practice of neurosurgery and the considered use of minimally invasive spinal technique.
A patient's first question on the day after surgery is rarely about the angled instrument that reached behind the lamina, or the precise plane of dissection that spared the descending nerve root.
The population presenting to spine clinics in Korea has changed during my career, and the change is not subtle.
A trainee's primer on anatomy, imaging, and surgical approach.
This note is written for the trainee—the early resident, the visiting observer, the fellow in transition—whose first impressions of spinal anatomy were shaped, as mine were, by textbook diagrams rather than by the operative field.