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Percutaneous lumbar discectomy: a new adjunct to open surgery
J Callahan1, J Mealey, S Shapiro
1Neurological Surgery Department, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis 46202.
Indiana Medicine : the Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
Percutaneous automated lumbar discectomy is a new and alternative method to open operations for lumbar disc disease. The procedure and indications for the procedure are explained in this article. The results of the first 24 such procedures performed at the Indiana University Medical Center will be examined and discussed.