Objectives: To investigate the pre-operative and post-operative characteristics of patients
suffering from chronic back and radicular pain who had percutaneous hydrodiscectomy …

OBJECTIVES: Hydrodiscectomy is a new technique used for percutaneous spinal
discectomy that employs a high-intensity stream of water for herniated disc ablation and …

Objective: To evaluate the clinical feasibility of percutaneous hydrodiscectomy in the
treatment of lumbar disc herniation. Method: Between February and June 2009, 69 lumbar …

Objective: The standard of care for surgical treatment of degenerative disc disease (DDD) is
open microdiscectomy, but various minimally invasive procedures have been introduced to …

We have read with interest the article by Khashab et al1 who reported a retrospective cohort
study of 22 patients with radicular pain without improvement of pain over a period of 6 …

Aim The difference in consistence of the nucleus pulposus and the annulus fibrosus allows
the water jet to selectively remove the nucleus in a closed vertebral disc at a certain …

The recurrence of lumbar disc herniation and neurofibrosis after microdiscectomy is
believed to be dependent on the size of the annulotomy and decreased nerve root …

Lumbar herniated disc are common manifestations of degenerative spine diseases, the
main cause of radiated lower back pain. This guideline followed standard of a systematic …

Although previous studies have found automated percutaneous discectomy and epidural
percutaneous discectomy to be less efficacious than conventional discectomy, these …

Abstract Study Design. An institutional, prospective clinical data analysis. Objective. To
evaluate the safety and efficacy of a new navigable percutaneous disc decompression …