Spinal Surgery

The Spine Surgery Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University is a Liaoning key discipline and master's training site. The hospital reports 39 beds and more than 1,000 spine operations per year, including over 500 minimally invasive and over 100 transforaminal endoscopic procedures. It lists nine spine surgeons, including one postdoctoral researcher, six doctors and two master's degree holders, with more than ten years' experience. Equipment includes X-ray systems, spinal endoscopes, an operating microscope and high-speed drills.

The hospital describes surgical care for degenerative, inflammatory, traumatic, deformity, tumor and metabolic spinal conditions, using decompression and reconstruction through anterior, posterior and other approaches. It lists transoral atlantoaxial reduction and fixation, anterior cervical reduction, minimally invasive lumbar fusion and percutaneous fixation, anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF), deformity correction by osteotomy, decompression and reconstruction, and local treatment of inflammatory lesions.

The department also describes revision surgery, transoral surgery for atlantoaxial tumors and deformities, cervical dislocation surgery, en-bloc tumor surgery and complex deformity correction. Minimally invasive techniques listed include cervical approaches, transforaminal endoscopy, oblique and anterior lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF and ALIF), minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) and sequential screw placement. Clinical claims and case volumes are as reported by the hospital.