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Dezawa Education of endoscopic spine surgery

and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (JESMISS) Conflicts of interest
established in 1999 and changed the name with There are no conflicts of interest.
Japanese Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
(JASMISS) in 2015. JESMISS has been making Patient consent
efforts to implement training with the use of pigs for
coping with the qualification system. In the field of Written informed consent was obtained from the
orthopedic surgery, 5 in vitro training sessions on patient.
spinal endoscopy were officially provided, beginning
with the 14th Arthroscopy Seminar in July 1996, and an Ethics approval
in vivo training session was provided during the First This article is approved by the Ethical Committee of
Endoscopic Spinal Surgery Seminar in September Teikyo University Mizonokuchi Hospital.
1997. To date, 14 JASMISS training sessions and 13
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