A Review of Full-endoscopic Interlaminar Discectomy for Lumbar Disc Disease: A Historical and Technical Overview
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- 2Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Changhua, Taiwan
- 3Department of Spine Surgery, Wooridul Spine Hospital, Pohang, Republic of Korea
- 4Center for Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the St. Elisabeth Group-Catholic Hospitals Rhein-Ruhr, St. Anna Hospital Herne/Marien Hospital Herne University Hospital/Marien Hospital Witten, Hospitalstr, Herne, Germany
- 5Department of Orthopedics, The General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100853, China, Beijing, China
- 6Department of Orthopedics, The University of Tokushima
Abstract
- Lumbar disc disease is an age or trauma-related disc injury with the clinical symptoms such as lower back pain or sciatica. Surgical treatment is the reliable and effective solution only if the symptoms grow progressively worse and conservative treatments fail. The purpose of spinal surgery is to remove the real pain generator and maintain physiological spinal alignment. Traditionally, patients after discectomy tend to experience the risk of postoperative intervertebral disc degeneration with intractable low back pain. Therefore, the minimally invasive techniques have rapidly developed in the past decades and brought revolutionary progress on techniques modification. Herein, we report the historical overview of the interlaminar fullendoscopic lumbar discectomy and technical evolution based on the review of literature.