Dr. Keerthivasan
– Orthopaedics & Spine Surgeon in Chennai
About Dr. Keerthivasan
Areas of Expertise
- Lumbar discectomy
- Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
- Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
- Spine trauma cases
- Percutaneous transpedicular biopsy
Educational Qualifications
1
Course:
- MBBS
University:
- Madras Medical College
2
Course:
- M.S. (Ortho)
University:
- Tirunelveli Medical College
3
Course:
- DNB (Ortho)
University:
- Post-doctoral fellowship in Spine Surgery UK
Comprehensive Spine Conditions Assisted
- Spine Deformity Correction
- Idiopathic Scoliosis
- Congenital Scoliosis
- Dystrophic scoliosis in neurofibromatosis
- Early onset scoliosis
- Post-traumatic / Post-infection kyphotic deformity
- Degenerative Spine Diseases
- Lumbar degeneration
- Cervical degeneration
- Thoracic degeneration
- Spinal Tumors
- Benign, malignant, and metastatic lesions
- Primary vertebral tumors
- Intradural extramedullary tumors
- Congenital Anomalies
- Foramen magnum decompression
- Tethered cord release
- Diastem excision
- Infective Spine Disorders
- Infective spondylodiscitis
- Trauma Cases
- Lumbar and cervical spinal injuries
Advanced Surgical Procedures in Spine Care
- Spinal Deformity Surgeries
- Posterior instrumented deformity correction and fusion
- Hemivertebrectomy with anterior reconstruction
- Anterior release and posterior deformity correction
- Deformity correction and stabilization with sublaminar wires
- Growth rod placement
- EDF cast application
- Pontes osteotomy
- Closing–opening wedge osteotomy
- Infective Spine Surgeries
- Debridement
- Percutaneous transpedicular biopsy
- Anterior reconstruction with posterior stabilization
- Transpedicular decompression
- Trauma Surgeries
- C1–C2 posterior fusion
- Cervical lateral mass / pedicle screw fixation
- Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
- Anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion
- Anterior odontoid screw fixation
- Pseudoarthrosis – vertebroplasty
- Tumor Surgeries
- Primary vertebral tumor excision
- Corpectomy
- Intradural extramedullary tumor excision
- Endoscopic Surgery
- Endoscopic interlaminar lumbar discectomy
- Degenerative Spine Surgeries
- Lumbar
- Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)
- MIS-TLIF
- Oblique Lumbar Interbody Fusion (OLIF)
- Revision decompression and fusion
- Trauma Cases
- Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF)
- Anterior cervical corpectomy
- Cervical laminectomy
- C1–C2 posterior fusion
- Occipito-cervical fusion
- Thoracic
- Ossified ligamentum flavum – decompression and posterior stabilization
