doi: 10.1080/10790268.2018.1442285. Epub 2018 Feb 28. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Spine Center, Incheon Himchan Hospital, Incheon, Korea. 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Kangwon National University, College of Medicine, Chuncheon,…

Objective: Epiduroscopic laser neural decompression (ELND) is one of the more invasive techniques for managing patients with herniated lumbar disc. However, ELND can be used to treat, and diagnose the…

Rationale: CRPS after a lumbar surgery has symptoms that are similar to PSSS. However, standard criteria for distinguishing CRPS from PSSS do not exist. We present a case report of…

Background: Intervertebral disc herniation with the pressure on the surrounding neural structures is one of the most important causes of chronic low back pain, which sometimes leads to open surgery.…

Objective: Laser-assisted paraspinal microdiscectomy for far lateral lumbar disc herniation (LDH) enables direct access to the foraminal or far lateral zone with minimal tissue injury and preserves facet joints, thereby…

Background: The non-operative treatment of herniated intervertebral discs has long been a fundamental challenge. A novel technique of laser ablation to ablate the nucleus pulposus under a transforaminal epiduroscope (TELA…

Percutaneous epidural neuroplasty (PEN) is an effective and safe procedure for herniated lumbar disc (HLD). Although PEN has an advantage of adhesiolysis, this procedure cannot decompress the protruded disc. Recently,…

Background/aim: We aimed to compare the effectivity of percutaneous disc coagulation therapy (PDCT) and navigable ablation decompression treatment (L-DISQ) in patients who were diagnosed with cervical disc herniation. Materials and…

Rationale: Trans-sacral epiduroscopic laser decompression (SELD) is a noninvasive pain-relieving procedure for treatment of herniated lumbar disc (HLD), and is known to have positive effects in alleviating lower back pain…