Abstract
Percutaneous laser disc decompression (PLDD) is a very safe, simple, effective and epochmaking treatment of lumbar disc herniation. We have performed 144 procedures of the disc decompression in 105 patients with successful results in 70%, three months after the PLDD, according to the“Low Back Pain Score”of the Japanese Orthopardic Association.
The resuts were followings: 72 patients had refief of the pain immidiatery after the procedure. MRI findings at three months after the PLDD schowed moderte decrease of the disc herniation. While three patients required PLDD more than two times. Four patients required subsequent open laminectomy. We have no complications in our series. The average duration of this surgical treatment was only 11 minutes.
