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Plasma radio-frequency-based diskectomy for treatment of cervical herniated nucleus pulposus: feasibility, safety, and preliminary clinical results.
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- Plasma disc decompression for contained cervical disc herniation: a randomized, controlled trial.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2010Trial
- Research Progress on Low-Temperature Plasma Nucleoplasty and Targeted Radiofrequency for Cervical Spondylotic Radiculopathy: A Retrospective Review.Pain and therapy · 2026Review
- Minimally Invasive Percutaneous Techniques for the Treatment of Cervical Disc Herniation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- The effect of posterior percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy vs. percutaneous nucleoplasty in patients with cervical radicular pain due to a single-level contained soft-disc herniation: a retrospective cohort study.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Article
- Percutaneous plasma disc decompression through a lower surgical approach for the treatment of cervicogenic headache in patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy: A retrospective cohort study.Biomedical reports · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the resection efficiency and safety of an enhanced power plasma generator using cadaveric intervertebral discs.Biomedical engineering letters · 2023Article
- A New Role for Epidurography: A Simple Method for Assessing the Adequacy of Decompression during Percutaneous Plasma Disc Decompression.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Neurological deterioration after posterior fossa decompression for adult syringomyelia: Proposal for a summarized treatment algorithm.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Percutaneous cervical coblation as therapeutic technique in the treatment of algo-dysfunctional pain of discal herniation.La Radiologia medica · 2021Observational
- Clinical and Radiological Comparisons of Percutaneous Low-Power Laser Discectomy and Low-Temperature Plasma Radiofrequency Ablation for Cervical Radiculopathy: A Prospective, Multicenter, Cohort Study.Frontiers in surgery · 2021Article
- Percutaneous cervical discectomy: retrospective comparison of two different techniques.La Radiologia medica · 2020Article
- Coblation annuloplasty in cervical discogenic pain without radiculopathy.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2020Article
- Percutaneous plasma laser disc coagulation and navigable ablation decompression in the treatment of cervical disc herniation: a single center experienceTurkish journal of medical sciences · 2019Article
- Percutaneous cervical laser diskectomy, thermoannuloplasty, and thermonucleoplasty; comparable results without surgery.Surgical neurology international · 2017Article
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- Retrospective evaluation of efficiency and safety of an anterior percutaneous approach for cervical discectomy.Asian spine journal · 2014Article
- Cervical nucleoplasty as an effective treatment method of cervical degenerative disc disease.Korean journal of anesthesiology · 2013Article
- Spondylodiscitis after Cervical Nucleoplasty without Any Abnormal Laboratory Findings.The Korean journal of pain · 2013Article
- The results of cervical nucleoplasty in patients with cervical disc disorder: a retrospective clinical study of 22 patients.The Korean journal of pain · 2011Article
- Percutaneous treatment of intervertebral disc herniation.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2010Article
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Abstract
background and purposeSeveral techniques, including chymopapain, mechanical aspiration, laser-based disk decompression, and endoscopic keyhole surgery, have been proposed as minimally invasive alternatives to fusion for treating cervical disk herniation, though none has gained wide acceptance. The purpose of this study was to assess feasibility, safety, and preliminary clinical results of percutaneous plasma-mediated radio-frequency-based diskectomy for cervical disk herniation.
methodsPatients (N = 55) with cervical soft disk protrusion were treated over a 29-month period. They had radicular pain; 3 patients also had moderate myelopathy. The procedure was performed with the Perc-DC SpineWand by using an anterior approach. Most cases were conducted with local anesthetic on an outpatient basis. Clinical outcomes were graded by using the Macnab criteria.
resultsAt 2 months, outcomes were good or excellent in 44/55 (80%) patients; the success rate was similar at 6 months, when 44 (85%) patients (n = 52/55) had good or excellent results. One clinically relevant complication (infectious diskitis) occurred within the first month postprocedure and was successfully treated. One technical complication (in situ rupture of the device tip) was observed; however, the patient remained asymptomatic during the 2-year follow-up. The 3 patients with clinical myelopathy experienced regression of cord compression symptoms; MR imaging in 2 patients showed morphologic evidence of reduction of cord compression.
conclusionsPlasma radio-frequency-based diskectomy in the cervical spine appears to be a minimally invasive low-risk approach, which is easy to perform, associated with only minimal discomfort to the patient, and effective in the short term.
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