Source:<\/strong>\u00a0IITS 2007 France<\/p>\n\n\n\n INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Success rates reports in endoscopically treated recurrent disc herniations are rare to find in the literature. The purpose of the present abstract is to report 7 cases of uncontained recurrent disc herniations treated with a non-traumatic endoscopic approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MATERIAL AND METHODS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 7 cases of patients with recurrent disc herniations and free fragments were randomly selected from our data bank. 29% were females and 71 % were males with ages ranging from 21 to 60 years old (average 40 years old). All patients had a previous laminectomy at the same level and on the same side of the current presentation. 43 % of the herniations were located at the L4\/L5 level and 57 % at L5\/S1 level. 4 cases were treated with a double approach, 2 with a single approach and 1 with a paramedian access. The patients were followed up on an average of 16 weeks post-surgically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Utilizing the MacNab criteria results were as follows: EXCELLENT: 58% (n:4), GOOD: 42% (n:3). The SUCCESS RATE was 100%. No complications were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CONCLUSIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Non-traumatic endoscopic approach in recurrent disc herniations with free fragments, previously treated with more invasive and traumatic surgical procedures, is a safe and very effective method of treatment. The presence of scar tissue from a previous procedure doesn’t seem to have an impact on the outcome. However, a larger population should be studied before getting to a more definitive conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 100% success with average of 16 weeks follow-up. Source:\u00a0IITS 2007 France INTRODUCTION Success rates reports in endoscopically treated recurrent disc herniations are rare to find in the literature. The purpose of the present abstract is to report 7 cases of uncontained recurrent disc herniations treated with a non-traumatic endoscopic approach. MATERIAL AND METHODS 7 cases of patients with recurrent disc herniations and free fragments were randomly selected from our data bank. 29% were females and 71 % were males with ages ranging from 21 to 60 years old (average 40 years old). All patients had a previous laminectomy at the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinstituteneurosurgery.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinstituteneurosurgery.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinstituteneurosurgery.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinstituteneurosurgery.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinstituteneurosurgery.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/backinstituteneurosurgery.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinstituteneurosurgery.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}