Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy

History.- History of Surgical Treatment of Herniated Lumbar Discs.- Anatomy.- Anatomy of the Posterolateral Spine.- The Posterolateral Approach.- Intervertebral Disc Material Gained by Percutaneous Discectomy.- Pathophysiology.- Biomechanical Background of Low Back Pain, Sciatica and Flexion Therapy.- Diagnosis.- The Clinical Diagnosis of Lumbar Disc Disease.- Radiodiagnostics of the Lumbar Spine.- Discography and Postdiscographic CT (Disco-CT) in Percutaneous Discectomy.- Prospective Evaluation of Correlations Between Discomanometry and MR Imaging Data: Role in the Management of Disc Disease - Preliminary Results.- Results of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Investigation Before and After Automated Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy (APLD) - Comparison of MRI Findings and Clinical Health Status.- Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy (PLD) - Technique and Results.- Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy - Indication, Technique and Results.- Indication and Technique of Percutaneous Nucleotomy with Discoscopy - Eight Years Experience (1979-1987).- Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy - The Berlin Technique.- Percutaneous Posterolateral Decompression for the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain of Discogenic Origin.- Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy and CT Discography.- Differential Indication for Chemonucleolysis and Percutaneous Discotomy According to the Behavior of the Nucleus After Treatment.- Results of Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy Compared to Laminotomy and Chemonucleolysis.- Correlations of the Amount of Disc Removed by Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy and Clinical Results.- Differential Indication for Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy.- Early Experience with Percutaneous Lateral Discectomy.- Automated Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy (APLD).- Early Results of Automated PercutaneousLumbar Discectomy.- Automated Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy (APLD).- Comparison of Chemonucleolysis with Chymopapain to Percutaneous Automated Discectomy: A Surgeon's First 50 Cases of Each.- Automated Percutaneous Nucleotomy by Pain Scale.- Percutaneous Discectomy - Personal Observations of 27 Cases.- Experimental Approaches and Perspectives.- The Possibilities of Percutaneous Lumbar Disc Surgery.- Percutaneous Endoscopic Laser Discectomy - Experimental Results.- Percutaneous Intradiscal Laser Discectomy.- Nucleus Pulposus Vaporization - Experimental Investigations on Use of Lasers on the Intervertebral Disc.