Spinal Surgery

Dr. Perin specializes in spinal thoracoscopy, laparoscopy and all other spine and spinal cord problems, including spinal instrumentation.

St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center offers a comprehensive clinical program for the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the spine and spinal cord. Complex problems involving the occipito-cervical junction through the sacrum and coccyx are investigated extensively and recommendations for treatment are made.

Treatment is available in the following areas:

• Spinal cord injury management

• Traumatic spinal fractures

• Spinal tumors (primary and metastatic)

• Spinal cord tumors (astrocytoma, ependymoma, hemangioma, etc.)

• Occipito-cervical anomalies (fracture instability, tumors, rheumatoid arthritis, congenital anomalies, etc.)

• Cervical (disc herniations, stenosis, spondylosis, OPLL, fracture instability)

• Thoracic (disc herniation, tumors, scoliosis, deformity, syringomyelia, arachnoid cyst)

• Lumbar (disc herniations, stenosis, instability, spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, tumors, synovial cysts

• Tethered cord, meningeal cysts (tarlov)

• Sacrum (tumors, meningomyelocele, lipoma)

• Endoscopic spinal surgery (see Indications for Endoscopic Surgery)