Spinal Canal Stenosis

Imaging.- Biomechanics.- Symptoms.- CT/X-ray guided technique in lumbar spinal canal stenosis: Spacers.- CT/X-ray guided technique in lumbar spinal canal stenosis: MILD.- CT/X-ray guided technique in lumbar foramina stenosis.

Luigi Manfrè gained his MD in 1989 and then completedhis specialization in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology in 1993. Heworked as a researcher at Palermo University from 1993 to 2001, and then as anInterventional Neuroradiologist at Cannizzaro Hospital in Catania, Italy. He iscurrently Head of the Minimally Invasive Spine Therapy Unit at CannizzaroHospital. His main interests are percutaneous minimally invasive spine surgeryusing X-ray and CT-guided techniques with only local anesthesia. He haspersonally performed more than 3000 procedures in this field since 1999,including procedures using third-generation interspinous spacers, the fullrange of augmentation procedures for the spine (vertebro/kypho/vesselplasty andvertebral stent), posterior trans and intraarticular fusion, radio andcryoablation of tumors and facets, and percutaneous discectomy. Dr. Manfrè was one of the founding members of the EuropeanVertebroplasty Research Team (EVEREST) in 2004 and has won 16 international andnational prizes. Hewon the "best paper of the year" prize from the American Society ofSpine Radiology in 2007, 2009, and 2012. He has published more than 200 papers and with Springer he has previouslypublished Spinal Imaging (in 2007), InterventionalNeuroradiology of the Spine (in 2013), and Imaging Spine After Treatment(also in 2013).