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Reducing the extent of facetectomy may decrease morbidity in failed back surgery syndrome

BACKGROUND: Percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy (PTED) is widely used for the treatment of lumbar disc herniation. Facetectomy in PTED is necessary for accessing the intraspinal region and for decompressing the exiting nerve roots in patients who suffer from hypertrophy of the facet jo...

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Autores principales: Li, Jingchi, Zhang, Xiaoyu, Xu, Wenqiang, Xi, Zhipeng, Xie, Lin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6689166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31399086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2751-5