• J Neurosurg Spine · Aug 2012

    Case Reports

    Minimally invasive tubular retractor system for adequate exposure during surgical obliteration of spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas with the aid of indocyanine green intraoperative angiography.

    • Atman Desai, Kimon Bekelis, and Kadir Erkmen.
    • Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA. atman.desai@hitchcock.org
    • J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 Aug 1; 17 (2): 160-3.

    AbstractEffective surgical obliteration of spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) traditionally requires laminectomy or hemilaminectomy to allow intradural exposure and occlusion of the draining vein. The authors present successful treatment of a spinal DAVF by using a tubular retractor system to provide minimally invasive exposure at the L5-S1 level adequate for both microsurgical treatment and intraoperative indocyanine green angiography.

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