International Society for Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery (ISMISS)

ISMISS was founded by a group of active pioneer surgeons in the field of minimal invasive and endoscopic spinal surgery. Even before its conception in 1988 in occasion of the Bruxelles meeting, several meetings focussing on this newly evolving field were held in Japan, America and Europe. So a main goal of ISMISS was to coordinate instructional activities and internatinal exchanges. In all three continents respective meetings were inaugurated in different locations. This activites shall shortly be documented in the following sections.