This video demonstrates an intraoperative view of the retropleural approach.

This information has been taken from Minimally Invasive Lateral Retropleural Thoracolumbar Approach: Cadaveric Feasibility Study and Report of Four Clinical Cases, a manuscript that can be read here: http://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/… . It was submitted by corresponding author Elias Dakwar, M.D., from the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.