BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to compare the clinical outcomes and complications after targeted PTED and conventional microscopic diskectomy for removing 1-level unilateral LDH and to evaluate the efficacy of PTED for the treatment of LDH. METHODS The authors retrospectively examined 915 consecutive patients who underwent PTED (group A, 301 patients) and microscopic diskectomy (group B,...

PURPOSE We documented the morphological changes on enhanced MR imaging studies that occur in epidural scar over a period of 1 year after lumbar diskectomy. METHODS The study population was culled from a randomized, multicenter clinical trial designed to evaluate the efficacy of a device inhibiting postoperative epidural fibrosis after single-level, unilateral laminectomy/diskectomy for hernia...

Study Design Case report. Objective The purpose of this report is to discuss the management of a disk herniation during pregnancy and the indication and particularities of surgery in this situation. Methods We describe a case of diskectomy performed in a 35-year-old woman at 18 weeks of gestation. After 4 weeks of trying to manage the disk herniation with rest and medications without success, t...

Abstract
 Objective: Percutaneous discectomy is an important issue in the field of neurosurgery. However, outputs scientific publications on this subject are not known. The goal study was to add body knowledge by performing a bibliometric analysis original studies percutaneous that have been published since 1970.
 Material and Method: literature review done using Web Science database....

We describe a minimally invasive arthroscopic technique for anterior diskectomy of the cervical spine. Fingertip pressure is applied between the carotid sheath laterally and the pharynx medially. The trachea and esophagus are displaced to the contralateral side. The disk level, soft-tissue thickness, and midline are verified with image intensification. A spinal needle is inserted through the so...

Automated percutaneous diskectomy has certain advantages over other surgical approaches to the treatment of far-lateral disk herniation; primarily, the procedure can be performed under local anesthesia without soft-tissue disruption. We describe four patients with far-lateral herniations who were successfully treated with the procedure.

I ne of the primary goals of surgery always has been to achieve the best result while introducing the least iatrogenic disorder. Surgeons are attaining this goal increasingly in the more recent application of percutaneous surgery for the treatment of lumbar disk disease. Percutaneous lumbar diskectomy, when used in association with modem imaging techniques (CT,MRI), delineates a new concept for...

BACKGROUND The aim of this research is to analyze the influence of Modic types on the clinical results of cervical spondylotic myelopathy treated by anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion. METHODS A total of 106 patients with a mean age of 55.8 ± 6.5 years were included in this study. Patients with Modic changes were retrospectively reviewed. In this study, 23 patients were classified as Mod...