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. 1990 Sep-Oct;11(5):865-8.

Far-lateral disk herniation: treatment by automated percutaneous diskectomy.

G Onik 1, J Maroon 1, Y L Shang 1
PMCID: PMC8334087  PMID: 2120989

Abstract

Automated percutaneous diskectomy has certain advantages over other surgical approaches to the treatment of far-lateral disk herniation; primarily, the procedure can be performed under local anesthesia without soft-tissue disruption. We describe four patients with far-lateral herniations who were successfully treated with the procedure.

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