Chapter 38 Outcome Measurements for Minimally Invasive Percutaneous Spine Techniques Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Cheul-Hong Kim, MD, PhD Various outcome scales There are various outcome scales for measuring the results…
Chapter 6 Transforaminal Epidural Block and Selective Nerve Root Block Sang-Sik Choi, MD, Yong-Chul Kim, MD, PhD Transforaminal epidural block (TFEB) is defined as spread of an injectate through the…
Chapter 16 Implantation of Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems Pyung-Bok Lee, MD, PhD, Sang-Chul Lee, MD, PhD, Yong-Chul Kim, MD, PhD Opioids produce a profound inhibition of the evoked discharge of…
Chapter 26 Selective Percutaneous Posterolateral Endoscopic Lumbar Nuclectomy Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Hyeon-Jung Lee, MD, PhD A percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy (PELD) through a posterolateral approach is one of many…
Chapter 7 Dorsal Root Ganglion Pulsed Radiofrequency Lesioning Sang-Sik Choi, MD, Yong-Chul Kim, MD, PhD Conventional heat radiofrequency lesioning of the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) remains controversial owing to the…
Chapter 13 Intervertebral Discography Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Seung-Hun Baek, MD, PhD Concepts of discography Discography is a procedure that is used to characterize the pathoanatomy/architecture of the intervertebral disc…
Chapter 22 Anterior endoscopic cervical microdecompression of disc and foramen John Chiu, MD The standard treatment for cervical disc protrusions and foraminal stenosis ha s been anterior cervical microdecompression of…
Chapter 30 Percutaneous Pedicle Screw Fixation Sang-Ho Lee, MD, PhD, Won-Gyu Choi, MD, PhD, Sung-Bae Ban, MD Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) has advantages over other fusion procedures, such as…
Chapter 19 Unipedicular Approach for Percutaneous Vertebroplasty Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Tae-Kyun Kim, MD, PhD Unipedicular vertebroplasty is a percutaneous unipedicular approach [1,2] for introducing polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) cement into the…
Chapter 27 Full-Endoscopic Interlaminar Lumbar Discectomy and Spinal Decompression Sebastian Ruetten, MD, PhD Endoscopic interlaminar access denotes a newly developed method for fully endoscopic uniportal operation of the lumbar spinal…
