For adults with symptomatic lumbar disc herniation, unilateral biportal endoscopic (UBE) microdiscectomy is associated with longer operating times and with lower pain medication consumption in the ...

Herniation may occur anywhere along the spine but most commonly in the lumbar region, usually between the fifth lumbar and first sacral vertebrae (L5-S1). The usual cause is degeneration of the ...

Study design: A case report of spontaneous resolution of a lumbar postdiscectomy pseudomeningocoele. Objectives: To suggest the role of nonoperative treatment even in symptomatic pseudomeningocoeles.

Introduction Full-endoscopic lumbar discectomy can be performed using either the transforaminal (TELD) or interlaminar (IELD) approach. Although both techniques are widely used, the optimal approach ...

Current evidence on the safety and efficacy of percutaneous interlaminar endoscopic lumbar discectomy for sciatica is adequate to support the use of this procedure provided that standard arrangements ...

This section describes efficacy outcomes from the published literature that the committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see ...

DePuy Synthes today announced the launch of CONCORDE™ Clear MIS Discectomy Device, a surgical solution designed to simplify discectomy in minimally invasive spinal fusion surgery. Now available in ...

I had a lumbar discectomy & lumbar laminectomy lower back surgery almost three weeks ago and me and my husband would like to resume with sex, however we are unsure when it will be safe to do so and I ...

Indications. Obenchain and Cloyd [27] reported on the relatively new technique of laparoscopic discectomy first performed on a patient in 1991. [28] Indications for this procedure include leg pain ...