title: A surgical approach through the pedicle to protruded thoracic discs.
abstract: Three cases of thoracic disc herniation presenting with signs of spinal cord compression are reported. The patients were operated on by an approach through a midline incision in which a pedicle is removed. Two patients were cured and one has improved.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007403:Intervertebral Disc / Q000601:surgery*; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000601:surgery*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery