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Animation of a full-endoscopic widening of a nerve opening (foraminotomy):
Where is the small skin incision made at the low back for foraminotomy ?
Literature: some scientific articles:
Animation of a full-endoscopic widening of a nerve opening (foraminotomy):
Where is the small skin incision made for foraminotomy ?
The skin incision for lumbar foraminal decompression is always at the side of the back.
Literature: some scientific articles:
Evins, Alexander I., Matei A. Banu, Innocent Njoku, Eric H. Elowitz, Roger Härtl, Antonio Bernado, en Christoph P. Hofstetter. ‘Endoscopic Lumbar Foraminotomy’. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 22, nr. 4 (april 2015): 730–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2014.10.025.
Yeung, Anthony, en Satishchandra Gore. ‘Endoscopic Foraminal Decompression for Failed Back Surgery Syndrome under Local Anesthesia’. International Journal of Spine Surgery 8 (2014): 22. https://doi.org/10.14444/1022.
Wagner, Ralf, Menno Iprenburg, en Albert E. Telfeian. ‘Transforaminal Endoscopic Decompression of a Postoperative Dislocated Bone Fragment after a 2-Level Lumbar Total Disc Replacement: Case Report’. Neurosurgical Focus, februari 2016, E8. https://doi.org/10.3171/2015.11.FOCUS15492.