Targeted percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic diskectomy in 295 patients: comparison with results of microscopic diskectomy

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 623-631

  Kim, Myung Jin ^a   Lee, Sun Ho ^b   Jung, Eul Soo ^a   Son, Byong Gil ^a   Choi, Eun Seok ^a   Shin, Jong Hyun ^a   Sung, Joo Kyung ^b   Chi, Yong Chul ^a  

^a Bogang Spine Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Comparison; Endoscopic; Microscopic diskectomy; Transforaminal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSFORAMINAL ENDOSCOPIC DISKECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISKECTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36348934551     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.12.051     Document Type: Article

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