Endoscopic spine surgery has long been synonymous with lumbar discectomy, according to Jang Yoon, MD, director of minimally invasive spine surgery at the University of California San Francisco — but ...

Spine disc related low back and leg pain is a major challenge and is the second most common reason that patients visit the doctor in the United States—outnumbered only be respiratory infections—and is ...

Contemporary Endoscopic Spine Surgery brings the reader the most up-to-date information on the endoscopy of the spine. Key opinion leaders from around the world have come together to present the ...

Endoscopic spine surgery is a revolutionary, minimally invasive procedure for spine care. This procedure uses small tools and an endoscope with an angled camera lens to magnify and illuminate your ...

Complications such as hospital or emergency room readmission and infections are lower for patients undergoing outpatient transforaminal endoscopic decompression surgery for lumbar foraminal and ...

A 65-year-old man presented with neurogenic claudication, numbness and tingling in the lower extremities. MRI demonstrated moderate to severe L4/5 lumbar spinal stenosis. The patient had failed ...

Endoscopic spine surgery is advancing faster than the workforce trained to perform it. That, Ben Burch, MD, believes, is the field’s real bottleneck. “I don’t think we have a technology problem in ...

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / May 23, 2024 / In a groundbreaking development within the field of spine surgery, Dr. Hooman Melamed has pioneered an ultra-minimally invasive approach that is ...

CPT codes for spine surgery may not always fit circumstances, and in some cases this prompts calls for reforms. One of those codes, CPT 62380 has the attention of some spine surgeons. The code, for ...