Area of Ostectomy in Posterior Percutaneous Endoscopic Cervical Foraminotomy: Images and Mid-term Outcomes.

Conclusions: Residual stenosis in the lateral portion of the intervertebral foramen is weakly associated with postoperative outcomes. Our process achieved adequate FRRs and favorable postoperative outcomes, suggesting that our criteria for determining the resection area are appropriate.
PMID: 29279753 [PubMed]

Source: Asian Spine Journal - December 30, 2017 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research