RT Book, Section
A1 Malik, Atif B.
A1 Sherlekar, Sandeep
A1 Osman, Said
A1 Mahmood, Sania
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
A2 Wootton, R. Joshua
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1131939030
T1 Percutaneous and Endoscopic Disc Procedures
T2 Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071766838
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131939030
RD 2024/04/18
AB Minimally  invasive  treatments  have  undertaken  all  areas  of  the  spine  over  the  past  50  years.  The  majority  of  these  minimally  invasive  techniques  use  a  small  passage  to  access  the  appropriate  anatomical  area  thereby  minimizing  the  resultant  injury  to  the  neural,  muscular,  and  ligamentous  soft  tissues.  Spinal  disc  disease  has  been  treated  with  chemonucleolysis,  percutaneous  discectomy,  laser  discectomy,  intradiscal  thermoablation,  and  other  minimally  invasive  microdiscectomy  techniques.  The  goals  of  minimally  invasive  spinal  procedures  embody  achieving  clinical  outcomes  comparable  to  conventional  open  surgery  while  reducing  the  risk  of  iatrogenic  complications.  With  the  advent  of  modern  surgical  technologies  such  as  digital  fluoroscopy  image  guidance,  high-resolution  endoscopy,  and  minimally  invasive  surgical  tools,  less  invasive  approaches  have  become  popular  over  the  past  decade  among  interventional  pain  physicians,  neurosurgeons,  and  orthopedic  spine  specialists.