Open Access<p>The Successful Treatment of Herniated Lumbar Discs That are Refractory to Repeated Epidural Steroid Injection by Using a Navigable Percutaneous Disc Decompression Device: A Case Series</p>
Author(s) -
Min Young Lee,
Mathieu BoudierRevéret,
Hee Kyung Cho,
Min Cheol Chang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of pain research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 1178-7090
DOI - 10.2147/jpr.s259212
Subject(s) - medicine , radicular pain , decompression , percutaneous , epidural steroid injection , lumbosacral joint , lumbar , surgery , low back pain , fluoroscopy , back pain , refractory (planetary science) , anesthesia , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , astrobiology
In most cases, lumbosacral radicular pain caused by herniated lumbar discs (HLDs) can be controlled with epidural steroid injections (ESIs). However, when the HLDs are large, the pain may not respond to ESIs. A navigable, percutaneous, disc decompression device has recently been developed to manage radicular pain that is secondary to HLD, which allows the wand tip to approach the herniated disc by rotating a control wheel. We performed a percutaneous disc decompression using the navigable percutaneous disc decompression device in two patients with a large HLD that did not respond to repeated ESIs.