Jingjing Tang, Ziyang Liang, Jiahui He, Qi Shang, Jiarui Zhang, Zhihua Wu, Xiaobing Jiang, De Liang, Hui Ren, Jianchao Cui, Zelong Zhou, Zhensong Yao
Symptomatic lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is widely treated using percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy (PELD). In the present PELD surgery, performing decompression under endoscope still takes a long time to explore the rupture site of annulus fibrosus, resulting in prolonged operation time and over-invasion of the undegenerated annulus fibrosus. A wide range of intraoperative exploration also induces an iatrogenic injury of the normal annulus fibrosus, even aggravating intervertebral disc degeneration, which may lead to early postoperative recurrence in severe case...
May 4, 2021: Orthopaedic Surgery