Posterior Percutaneous Endoscopic Cervical Diskectomy as a treatment for cervical radiculopathy

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Zha Dingsheng Fernando Cardoso Gomes Hao Wu Lek Hang Cheang Shijun Chen Wuyan Xu Yaqi Li Zhen Lin

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Hao Wu
Department of orthopedics, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

A B S T R A C T

Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (ACDF) is the gold standard treatment for patients with cervical radiculopathy. However, the use of ACDF for patients with cervical radiculopathy can result in several disadvantages, such as limitation of motion and accelerating degeneration of adjacent segment. An alternative, less invasive endoscopic technique, posterior percutaneous endoscopic cervical diskectomy (PPECD), was applied to address the above problems associated with ACDF. The patient presented with pain and weakness of the left arm for 2 years. P-PECD was applied and complete decompression of the nerve root was achieved. The symptoms were relieved after surgery. Postoperative MR showed the ruptured disk fragment was successful removed. No spinal instability or symptom relapse was observed in follow-up. PPECD may be an option for patients with cervical radiculopathy

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 27, May 2019
Accepted: Thu 13, Jun 2019
Published: Thu 20, Jun 2019

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© 2023 Hao Wu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.03.08