Percutaneous lumbar discectomy is indicated in noncontained disc herniations. Transforaminal endoscopic microdiscectomy differs from other percutaneous discectomy procedures in that direct ...

Trial registration number NCT02602093. The PTED-study aimed to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness (CE) of PTED compared with open microdiscectomy in patients with lumbar disc ...

“A bone kind of popped out and the joint kind of went out of place, but I put it back in,” Woods said. Five months later, he had to go through a second microdiscectomy surgery on his back to ...

Neurosurgeon to the Spinal Injuries Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital and ... Such procedures include open discectomy, microdiscectomy and endoscopic percutaneous discectomy. In some situations, in ...

Standard microdiscectomy Leg pain exceeding back pain, radicular signs and symptoms with corresponding imaging studies, failure to improve after conservative therapy- Automated percutaneous ...