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Percutaneous Endoscopic Spine Surgery for Extruded Lumbar Disc Herniation



Mutombo Menga Arsene, Xiao-Tao Wu*, Zan- Li Jiang, Lei Zhu
Department of Spine Surgery, The Affiliated ZhongDa Hospital of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China


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Abstract

The conventional open discectomy is the gold standard for treating extruded lumbar disc herniation, especially in highly migrated lumbar disc herniation. Endoscopic spine surgery is known to be very challenging and technically demanding, in particular for highly migrated disc herniation. However, several studies have reported numerous effective techniques with results approximatively equal to conventional open surgeries or mini-open surgery. In the last few years, an increased number of endoscopic spine surgical techniques have been proposed in order to overcome various issues encountered in traditional endoscopic spine surgery. Nevertheless, surgical approach selection for treating extruded lumbar disc herniation is based on aspects such as anatomical structures, availability of surgical instruments, surgeon’s experience, and the disc herniation location. Advances in endoscopic visualization and instrumentation, as well as an increased demand for minimally invasive procedures, have led to the popularity of Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy (PELD). PELD is a recent and advanced technique among other minimally invasive spine surgeries (MIS). It includes various kinds of surgical techniques to treat lumbar disc herniation and aims to offer a safe, less invasive surgical procedure for lumbar disc space decompression and removal of nucleus pulposus.

Keywords: PELD, Minimal invasive surgery, Discectomy, Lumbar disc herniation, Extrusion, Spine surgery.