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Endoscopic Effort to Overcome Anatomical Barriers

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Endoscopic surgery is a minimally invasive and feasible option for the treatment of lumbar disc herniations. The technological advances applied to the new endoscopic instruments help to overcome the anatomical barriers that make this procedure difficult in complex anatomical situations. Currently, some techniques allow us to reach disc fragments distal to the intervertebral space. In this chapter, several options to overcome the anatomical barriers with endoscopic procedures are presented.

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Abbreviations

AP:

Anteroposterior

DRG:

Dorsal root ganglion

MRI:

Magnetic resonance imaging

ODI:

Oswestry disability index

PELD:

Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy

PELDA:

Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy

PEN:

Percutaneous epidural neuroplasty

PETA:

Percutaneous endoscopic translaminar approach

PSIS:

Posterior-superior iliac spine

SAP:

Superior articular process

VAS:

Visual analog pain scale

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    Javier Quillo-Olvera & Jin-Sung Kim

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    Jun Ho Lee

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea (Republic of)

    Yong Ahn

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Quillo-Olvera, J., Kim, JS. (2020). Endoscopic Effort to Overcome Anatomical Barriers. In: Kim, JS., Lee, J., Ahn, Y. (eds) Endoscopic Procedures on the Spine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3905-8_16

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