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Lumbar Disk Herniation: Endoscopic and Microsurgical Treatment

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Lumbar disc herniation is one of the most common conditions encountered by spine surgeons in clinical practice. Patients with lumbar disc herniations usually present with back pain and radicular pain due to compression/inflammation of the exiting nerve root by the protruded disc material. They present with a specific low back pain; besides the low back pain, there is a neurological symptom. The kind of pain is mostly a combination of axial nociceptive/neuropathic pain in combination with radicular pain, sometimes neuropathic. As such, since in most cases medical imaging offers a clear indication of the nature and the cause of the pain, a firm diagnosis can usually be made.

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    Lee A. Tan MD, Carter S. Gerard MD, Laura A. Snyder MD & Richard G. Fessler MD, PhD

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Tan, L.A., Gerard, C.S., Snyder, L.A., Fessler, R.G. (2016). Lumbar Disk Herniation: Endoscopic and Microsurgical Treatment. In: van de Kelft, E. (eds) Surgery of the Spine and Spinal Cord. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27613-7_28

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