ArticleScientific reports2025
Bilateral synchronous UBE for unilateral laminotomy and bilateral decompression as a potentially effective minimally Invasive approach for two-level lumbar spinal stenosis.
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- Efficacy of unilateral biportal endoscopy vs. unilateral portal endoscopy for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Pooled it
- The Slalom Technique as a Motion-Preserving Approach for Multilevel Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Asian journal of neurosurgery · 2026Review
- Unilateral biportal endoscopic lumbar interbody fusion: Radiographic and clinical outcomes in grade I lumbar spondylolisthesis.Medicine · 2026Article
- Impact of mentorship on the learning curve of unilateral biportal endoscopic unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression in lumbar spinal stenosis: a cumulative sum analysis across 2 generations of surgeons.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2026Article
- [Impact of surgeon's dominant hand-side consistency with surgical approach on operational efficiency of unilateral biportal endoscopic lumbar discectomy: a prospective cohort study].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2026Article
- Outcomes and safety of unilateral biportal endoscopy for lumbar spinal stenosis.American journal of translational research · 2026Article
- Early efficacy and safety of spinal endoscopy assisted anterior cervical discectomy and fusion in the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Establishment of a rabbit model for microscopically assisted posterior lumbar fenestration.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
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Currently, Unilateral biportal endoscopy is widely used in the surgical treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis. To investigate the feasibility of bilateral synchronous UBE to unilateral laminotomy and bilateral decompression(BS-UBE-ULBD) for treating two-level lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). Sixty-four patients with two-level lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) treated with BS-UBE-ULBD from October 2022 to January 2024 were retrospectively analyzed. All patients were treated with BS-UBE-ULBD. All 64 patients successfully underwent surgery, and the duration of surgery was 95-180 min, with an average of 119.92 ± 14.79 min. The average number of fluoroscopy was 3.02 ± 0.92. The average blood loss during the surgery was 73. 44 ± 36.70 ml. Postoperative lumbar CT showed that the spinal canal and bilateral nerve roots were fully decompressed. There were no postoperative complications, such as infection, severe nerve root injury, and lumbar instability. Complete follow-up data were obtained for all 64 cases. The VAS score of low back and leg pain and the ODI of lumbar function significantly (P < 0.05) improved at each follow-up time point. MacNab evaluation at 6 months after the surgery showed that the results were excellent in 48 cases, good in 14 cases, and fair in 2 cases. The excellent and good rate was 96. 88% (62/64). So BS-UBE-ULBD is a minimally invasive, highly effective, and safe procedure for 2-level LSS.Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) refers to clinical symptoms caused by the compression of the cauda equina, nerve root, and vascular complex. LSS can occur due to the abnormal shape and volume of the bony or fibrous structure after degenerative changes and the stenosis of the inner diameter of one or more lumens at a single level or multiple levels. It is a common cause of lumbago or lumbago and leg pain, which is common among middle-aged and elderly people
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