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What do we mean by Minimally Invasive or Key Hole Spine Surgery ?

The world of medical science has been taken over by a storm of minimally invasive surgeries. May it be any field of medicine, all scientific evidences has started promoting minimally invasive surgery. A surgery which we at our household  know by name of "Key Hole Surgery".  My question today is , Do we really understand what do a common man mean when he thinks about "key hole surgery" and what actually the science says about it ! what i mean to say is ... there is difference between a common perception amongst mass and the actual scientific meaning of minimally invasive surgeries.  I can not narrate to a great extent about other fields as they are not my subjects... but what i do understand and practice is spine surgery. So, let us try to understand what should we mean or understand when we talk about "minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS)"! What is General perception about "Key Hole Surgery" what i have found during my day to