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href=http://7thspace.com/headlines/312801/percutaneous_endoscopic_lumbar_discectomy_clinical_and_quality_of_life_outcomes_with_a_minimum_2_year_follow_up.html"Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy: clinical and quality of ...  -  ‎Jun 25, 2009‎
7thSpace Interactive (press release)Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy is a relatively new technique. Very few studies have reported the clinical outcome of percutaneous endoscopic

href=http://www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/200907/market03.shtml"Wockhardt Performs Innovative Spine Procedure for Slipped Discs  -  ‎Jul 13, 2009‎
Express Healthcare ManagementWockhardt Hospitals, Kalyan has successfully performed a revolutionary minimally invasive spine surgery — Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy (PELD)—

href=http://www.mumbaipluses.com/DombivaliKalyanplus/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=1&contentid=20090621200906221754371512c5199d5&sectxslt=&comments=true"Surgical relief for back pain  -  ‎Jun 22, 2009‎
Mumbai PlusesThe procedure termed Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy (PELD) was performed with a single incision under local anesthesia. The patient, Sunil Ghag,

href=http://www.ejbjs.org/cgi/content/full/91/7/1822"What's New in Spine Surgery  -  ‎Jul 1, 2009‎
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)Two hundred patients who had been managed with lumbar discectomy were randomized to treatment with or without an epidural steroid and were followed for two

href=http://chicago.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=186037&type_news=latest"Dr Britt Borden Launches Spine Surgery Educational Blog  -  ‎Jun 30, 2009‎
dBusinessNews Chicago (press release)The first entry, released May 24, will help patients determine if a lumbar discectomy can help relieve lower back or leg pain caused by a ruptured disk.

href=http://www.yakup.com/opdb/index.php?dbt=article&cmd=view&cate=1%7C14&code=120798&page=1"척추수술 안전성 높ì?¸ 논문 잇달아 발표 '주목'  -  ‎Jul 1, 2009‎
약업신문...내시경 수핵 절제술 후ì—? ë°œìƒ?한 후복막부 혈종(Postoperative retroperitoneal hematoma following transforaminal percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy)'

REMINDER: Live Webcast of a Minimally Invasive Lumbar Discectomy ...  -  Jan 28, 2009
MSNBCA minimally invasive lumbar discectomy is performed to correct a herniated disc in the lower back. The surgery involves delicate instrumentation that allows

What's the evidence for surgery through a small hole in the skin?  -  Jan 21, 2009
guardian.co.uk,Report of a controlled clinical trial comparing automated percutaneous lumbar discectomy and microdiscectomy in the treatment of contained lumbar disc

Minimally Invasive Lumbar Discectomy  -  Nov 14, 2008
OR-Live,Watch Baptist Hospital neurosurgeon Sergio Gonzalez-Arias, MD, perform a minimally invasive lumbar discectomy. The procedure, to correct a herniated disc in

Cutting back on medical costs  -  Oct 23, 2008
News & Observer,...often find small tears in knee cartilage or a bulging disc, and patients are then referred for arthroscopic knee surgery or micro lumbar discectomy.

Lumbar Discectomy Outcomes Vary by Herniation Level in the Spine ...  -  Sep 1, 2008
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)JD Lurie, MD, MS 1 , SC Faucett, MD, MS 1 , B. Hanscom, MS 1 , TD Tosteson, ScD 1 , PA Ball, MD 1 , WA Abdu, MD, MS 1 , JW Frymoyer, MD 1 and JN Weinstein,

Extensively Detailed Report Offers Clinical Guidelines for ...  -  Sep 22, 2008
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy, automated - Neuroreflexotherapy (NRT) - NucleoplastyTM - Percutaneous vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty - Postural

Say goodbye to back pain  -  Aug 30, 2008
Hindu,Micro lumbar Discectomy also required cutting the normal structures of the spinal column to access the disc tissue. This can at times further aggravate disc

What's New in Spine Surgery  -  Jul 1, 2008
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)An interim report on a small pilot clinical trial in which autologous disc chondrocytes were injected twelve weeks after lumbar discectomy showed that the

Healthbase Announces Partnership with South Korean Spine Hospital ...  -  May 21, 2008
HealthNews-Stats (press release),Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF), Percutaneous Endoscopic Thoracic Discectomy (PETD), Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy (PELD),

It's a pain in the back!  -  Mar 14, 2008
Financial Mail (subscription),Opinions diverge on the efficacy of lumbar surgery depending on the pathology (for example, lumbar discectomy is usually more successful in patients

X Marks The Spot - And The Ruptured Disc  -  Mar 16, 2008
WPTV,Traditionally, surgeons will perform a lumbar discectomy, where they remove the bulging portion of the nucleus and some of the "jelly" matter in the nucleus

ORLive Presents: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery for Herniated ...  -  13 Feb 2008
Market Wire (press release)..."The benefit to the patient of using the METRx procedure for a lumbar discectomy is that with minimally invasive spine surgery, surgical trauma is kept to

The Clinical Value of Histologic Examination in Shoulder Arthroscopy  -  Feb 1, 2008
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)Previous orthopaedic studies have examined the clinical value of these examinations in total hip and knee arthroplasty, lumbar discectomy, knee arthroscopy,

study finds tka cost-effective for end-stage knee arthritis ...  -  Nov 8, 2007
Ortho SuperSite,...the cost-effectiveness of tka was comparable to that of acl reconstruction, lumbar discectomy and total hip replacement. total knee arthroplasty is a

surgical device suits routinely performed spinal surgeries.  -  Nov 5, 2007
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release),...(i) caragee ej, et al. clinical outcomes after lumbar discectomy for sciatica: the effects of fragment type and annular competence. jbjs 2003; 85a:102-108.

big surgeries, small incisions  -  Nov 10, 2007
Indian Express,...can be closed by a single stitch, says dr gupte, a specialist in percutaneous endoscopic cervical/lumbar discectomy. similar is the case of the brain.

study shows value of tkr in virtually all patients  -  Nov 9, 2007
DG News...better value than many other widely accepted musculoskeletal procedures, such as lumbar discectomy and fusion of the spine for spondylolisthesis."



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