Automated percutaneous discectomy.
Automated percutaneous discectomy is the most popular technique for intradiscal therapy of lumbar disc disease, with over 80,000 procedures performed worldwide to date. Success rates range from 55% to 85%, and complications are very infrequent (less than one percent). Very careful patient selection seems critical for success.
Quigley
M R
MR
Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery), Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Maroon
J C
JC
D001331:Automation; D017587:Diskectomy, Percutaneous / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000601:surgery*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D016896:Treatment Outcome