Scott A. Brandt

Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy: Clinical Response in an Initial Cohort of Fifty Consecutive Patients With Chronic Radicular Pain

This paper reports on response to percutaneous discectomy in the initial cohort of 50 patients treated with the Dekompressor® 1.5 mm percutaneous lumbar discectomy probe at a 6-month follow-up. BACKGROUND

Percutaneous lumbar discectomy: One-year follow-up in an initial cohort of fifty consecutive patients with chronic radicular pain

BACKGROUND Discogenic leg pain is a primary cause of health care expenditure in the U.S.A., afflicting nearly 10 million people at an estimated cost of over

Methods and systems for spinal radio frequency neurotomy

20 billion. 1,2 This pain is often due to herniation of the intervertebral disc 3–5 and clinically characterized as compressive or noncompressive. 3 Compressive herniations have been treated with open surgical discectomy/decompression when a progressive motor, sensory, and/or reflex change (ie, radiculopathic pattern) is noted on serial neurologic exam. 6,7 In that setting, surgical disc decompression has produced clinical improvement by reducing pressure within the intervertebral disc and adjacent nerve root. 8