Minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) techniques were developed to address morbidities associated with open spinal surgery approaches. MISS was initially applied for indications such as the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this video from the Open Operating Theatre, Klaus John Schnake, MD, discusses how to perform an open, ...

Full-endoscopic uniportal surgery with a new interlaminar and lateral transforaminal approach may replace open nucleotomy of sequestered disc prolapses as the choice treatment for lumbar disc ...

A lumbar laminectomy is a surgery that treats compression of the spinal cord in your lower back. The surgery involves removing all or part of your vertebra called the lamina. The lamina is the part of ...

OBJECTIVE To test the equivalence for clinical effectiveness between microdecompression and laminectomy in patients with central lumbar spinal stenosis. DESIGN Multicentre observational study. SETTING ...

Objective To assess the costs and cost-effectiveness of percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy (PTED) compared with open microdiscectomy among patients with sciatica. Methods This economic ...

This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...

Posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) and transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) procedures are coded 22630 for a lumbar initial interspace arthrodesis, posterior interbody technique, which ...

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This section describes efficacy outcomes from the published literature that the Committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see ...