Minimally Invasive Lumbar Discectomy - Johns Hopkins Medicine
During a minimally invasive lumbar discectomy, an orthopedic surgeon or neurosurgeon takes out part of the damaged disk. This helps ease the pressure on the nerve root or spinal cord. Your surgeon can use different methods to do this.
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery - OrthoInfo - AAOS
MIS Lumbar Diskectomy. A herniated disk in the lower back that pinches a nerve may cause severe leg pain, numbness, or weakness. To surgically relieve these symptoms the disk is removed. This procedure is called a diskectomy. For the surgery:
Minimally Invasive Lumbar Discectomy | HSS Spine
A percutaneous disc removal (PDR) can remove a portion of the herniated disc that is compressing spinal nerves through a small incision in the skin. This minimally invasive approach uses a much smaller incision than traditional open spinal surgeries and …
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery - Neurosurgery
Various minimally invasive techniques such as mini open decompression, corpectomy and percutaneous fixation allow spine surgeons to remove the tumor with small incisions and effectively separate the tumor from nerves and spinal cord.
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery - AANS
2024年4月8日 · Minimally invasive tubular retractor (MITR): Muscle-splitting technology first introduced in 1995 in conjunction with microendoscopic discectomy. The tubular retractor is used to create a tunnel down to the spinal column and can come in a variety of sizes, even as small as 1.4 cm in diameter (about 1/2 of an inch).
Microdiscectomy: Surgical Treatment for a Herniated Disc - HSS
2023年7月20日 · Microdiscectomy is a type of minimally invasive discectomy commonly used to treat a herniated disc. When a herniated disc compresses a spinal nerve, symptoms can include pain (which may extend down one or both arms and legs, as is the case in sciatica), muscle weakness and difficulty with repetitive motions.
Microdiscectomy: Benefits, Procedure, and Recovery - Healthline
2021年2月18日 · Microdiscectomy, also sometimes called microdecompression or microdiskectomy, is a minimally invasive surgical procedure performed on patients with a herniated lumbar disc. During this surgery, a...
Diskectomy: What It Is, Purpose, Procedure & Recovery - Cleveland Clinic
2023年9月30日 · Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) diskectomy: The surgeon makes a small skin incision and then uses a series of progressively larger tubes (called dilators) to tunnel through your muscles. Special instruments (including an endoscope) help the surgeon see and operate in a smaller space.
Multilevel Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression: Clinical …
2021年8月19日 · The use of MIS techniques to perform lumbar decompression and/or discectomy at multiple levels was found to be both clinically effective and durable. Fusion rates remained low 2 years after the index surgery and were …
Minimally Invasive Tubular Lumbar Discectomy Versus …
2021年7月9日 · In this study, we aimed to determine the effectiveness of MIS tubular discectomy in comparison to conventional open surgery for symptomatic lumbar disc herniations among patients enrolled in CSORN.