10,228 of Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar
Discectomies which have been taken from 2001 to 2012 in Seoul Gangnam Wooridul
Hospital (Director Ho-jin Kim) were analyzed and resulted in 95.7% of success.
A huge clinical analysis and research paper
about re-operate and the reason from Wooridul Hospital have recorded on the
world SCI level of international symposium journal named ‘Neurosurgery’.
This is the first research paper which is
telling about over 10,000 cases of Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy(PELD)
results. These are the results of what Wooridul Hospital has been continuously
studying as a leader of endoscopic treatment for 30 years.
Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar
Discectomy(PELD) is a way of cutting skin only 0.6cm and inserting laser and
endoscopy to check and treat with the monitor screen. The laser used during
surgery is really thin like a hair, and precise enough to insert the narrow
space between bones and nerves, so it’s less dangerous than old open spine
surgery and it treats a basical reason without transfusion and general
anesthesia.
According to the research, among 10,228 of
PELD used endoscopy and laser from 2001 to 2012, successful results rate is
95.7% which means highly successful. 4.3% of patients got re-operation, because
herniated disc was not removed totally or it was removed but reoccurred.
PELD may be proceeded depending on the
feature of herniated disc so competence of operating surgeon is very important.
Wooridul Hopital’s chairman named Sang-ho
Lee wrote a journal and said “You may think the endoscopic surgery is simple
but it’s very complicated and difficult for doctors, so repeat and precise
technique are needed” and “I hope this research will be a scientific foundation
to help doctors and patients decide their opinion about the surgery.”
Resource: https://www.wooridul.co.kr/?p=7129
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