title: Nucleoscope. Instrumentarium for endoscopy of the intervertebral disc space.
abstract: Basing on preliminary endoscopic examinations to present the intervertebral disc interspace using a common arthroscope in operations performed for lumbar disc prolapses, a special endoscopic instrumentarium (nucleoscope Hausmann-Forst) was developed allowing detailed and riskless views into the intervertebral disc interspace.
mesh_terms: D020679:Arthroscopes; D019723:Endoscopes; D006801:Humans; D007403:Intervertebral Disc / Q000601:surgery*; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000601:surgery*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery