The Department of Spine Surgery of Shenzhen Guangming District People's Hospital is a key clinical specialty specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of spinal diseases. The department has strong technical strength and complete specialty categories, focusing on minimally invasive spinal surgery and spinal deformity correction.

Personnel Structure:

The department has 12 physicians, including 2 chief physicians, 4 associate chief physicians, 4 attending physicians, and 2 resident physicians. There are 2 PhDs and 6 masters. The nursing team has 20 nurses, including 2 charge nurses and 18 staff nurses.

Number of Beds:

The department has 40 open beds, with an annual discharge of more than 1,500 patients and an annual surgical volume of more than 1,200 cases.

Equipment:

The department is equipped with advanced spinal surgery equipment such as C-arm X-ray machines, O-arm navigation systems, spinal endoscopes (intervertebral foramen scopes, discoscopes), high-speed drills, ultrasonic bone knives, spinal navigation systems, and intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring systems.

Scope of Diagnosis and Treatment:

1. Degenerative spinal diseases: Cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, lumbar spondylolisthesis, thoracic disc herniation, etc.

2. Spinal trauma: Various types of spinal fractures, spinal cord injury, cauda equina syndrome, etc.

3. Spinal deformities: Idiopathic scoliosis, congenital scoliosis, kyphosis, spondylolisthesis, etc.

4. Spinal infections: Spinal tuberculosis, suppurative spondylitis, intervertebral disc infection, etc.

5. Spinal tumors: Primary spinal tumors, metastatic spinal tumors, intraspinal tumors, etc.

6. Spinal cord diseases: Syringomyelia, spinal cord vascular malformation, etc.

7. Peripheral nerve entrapment syndromes: Carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, tarsal tunnel syndrome, etc.

Specialty Features:

1. Minimally invasive spinal surgery: The department is characterized by minimally invasive spinal surgery, carrying out various minimally invasive spinal surgery technologies, including:

- Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) and percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP)

- Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF)

- Spinal endoscopy (intervertebral foramen scope, discoscope)

- Minimally invasive spinal internal fixation

- Microscopic spinal surgery

2. Spinal deformity correction: Carrying out various spinal deformity correction surgeries, including idiopathic scoliosis correction, congenital scoliosis correction, kyphosis correction, etc.

3. Spinal tumor surgery: Carrying out various spinal tumor surgeries, including total en bloc spondylectomy, spinal tumor resection and reconstruction, etc.

4. Spinal trauma treatment: Carrying out standardized treatment of various spinal traumas, including spinal fracture reduction and internal fixation, spinal cord injury decompression, etc.

5. Spinal rehabilitation: Providing comprehensive spinal rehabilitation treatment, including physical therapy, exercise therapy, occupational therapy, etc.