Open AccessPercutaneous endoscopic ventral facetectomy: An innovative substitute of open decompression surgery for lateral recess stenosis surgical treatment?
Author(s) -
Stylianos Kapetanakis,
Nikolaos Gkantsinikoudis,
Jannis Papathanasiou,
Georgios Charitoudis,
Tryfon Thomaidis
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of craniovertebral junction and spine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 0976-9285
pISSN - 0974-8237
DOI - 10.4103/jcvjs.jcvjs_76_18
Subject(s) - medicine , facetectomy , percutaneous , lateral recess , surgery , decompression , visual analogue scale , stenosis , quality of life (healthcare) , lumbar , radiology , laminectomy , nursing , psychiatry , spinal cord
Percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic surgery (PTES) constitutes an innovative method principally recruited for the treatment of lumbar disc herniation. Indication spectrum of PTES is constantly widened in current years. Hence, PTES has been proposed to represent a satisfactory alternative for the treatment of lateral recess stenosis (LRS), being defined as percutaneous endoscopic ventral facetectomy (PEVF) in these cases. The aim of this original study is to determine, for the first time in the literature, the outcomes of PEVF, especially in otherwise healthy nonelderly patients with LRS, alongside with special focus in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment.