====== 1894 ======
[[1893]]-[[1895]]

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the wide dissemination of [[Pott's disease]] has ignited debates about which should be the ideal route to perform ventrolateral [[decompression]] of the dorsal rachis in case of [[paraplegia]] due to [[spinal cord compression]] in tuberculosis [[spondylitis]]. It was immediately clear that the optimal approach should be the one minimizing the surgical manipulation on both neural and extra-neural structures, while optimizing the exposure and surgical maneuverability on the target area. The first attempt was reported by Victor Auguste Menard in [[1894]]
((Ménard V. Causes de la paraplégie dans le mal de
Pott. Son traitement chirurgical par l’ouverture
directe du foyer tuberculeux des vertebres. Rev
Orthop 1894; 5: 47-64.))
, who described, for the first time, a completely different route from traditional [[laminectomy]], called [[costotransversectomy]]. The technique was conceived to drain tubercular paravertebral abscesses causing paraplegia without manipulating the spinal cord. 

The procedure defined by Capener in [[1954]] 
((CAPENER N. The evolution of lateral rhachotomy. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1954 May;36-B(2):173-9. doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.36B2.173. PMID: 13163099.))
resulted in better results for the treatment of [[spinal tuberculosis]], due to the effect of [[antibiotic]]s
((Benzel EC. Spine Surgery: Techniques,
Complication Avoidance, and Management, 3th
Ed. Saunders, Philadelphia 2012.))