Diskectomy. During this surgery, your surgeon removes your damaged disk to relieve pressure on your nerves. They can perform the surgery in a couple of ways: ...

There are many variations on this standard diskectomy, but all of the procedures are designed to relieve pressure on the spinal nerve roots. Your surgeon can help determine what’s best for you. DR.

Mean RDQ score at 8 weeks after surgery was 5.8 ± 0.4 for tubular diskectomy and 4.9 ± 0.5 for conventional microdiskectomy (between-group mean difference, 0.8; 95% CI, −0.4 to 2.1).

There are many variations on this standard diskectomy, but all of the procedures are designed to relieve pressure on the spinal nerve roots. Your surgeon can help determine what’s best for you. DR.

A common type of disk surgery is diskectomy. During the procedure, the surgeon makes an opening in the spinal canal, through which the spinal cord passes. The surgeon removes any disk material ...

At 1 year, 107 of 156 patients (69 percent) assigned to tubular diskectomy reported a good recovery vs. 120 of 151 patients (79 percent) assigned to conventional microdiskectomy.

In a single-center trial, we randomly assigned patients with sciatica that had lasted for 4 to 12 months and lumbar disk herniation at the L4–L5 or L5–S1 level in a 1:1 ratio to undergo ...

Codes 63075 and 22554 are still valid for use in cases where only those individual procedures are performed and they are not combined. Code 22554 is for an arthrodesis, anterior interbody technique, ...

A diskectomy is done to remove the damaged part of a disk in the spine. Yelich said Thursday in a video posted on social media that surgery “was just the best option that we really had left.” ...

Ali Bydon, MD, associate professor, neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses the study findings he and colleagues published in the journal of neurosurgery, Spine ...

The diskectomy, a surgical procedure that addresses a damaged or herniated intervertebral disk within the spine by removing it, according to the National Library of Medicine, is to relieve Yelich ...

– Percutaneous lumbar discectomy procedures are coded 62287, which is for a decompression done by any method/technique. That code is billed once (for single or multiple levels), regardless of the ...