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Case Reports
Transforaminal Endoscopic Decompression for Foot Drop 12 Years After Lumbar Total Disk Replacement.
- Albert E Telfeian, Adetokunbo Oyelese, Jared Fridley, and Ziya L Gokaslan.
- Department of Neurosurgery, Rhode Island Hospital, and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Electronic address: ATelfeian@Lifespan.org.
- World Neurosurg. 2018 Aug 1; 116: 136-139.
AbstractLumbar total disk replacement is considered for the treatment of lumbar degenerative disk disease with the hope that by preserving motion, the long-term fusion complication of adjacent segment disease can be avoided. The complications of lumbar total disk replacement can be divided into approach-related and long-term complications. Little has been described about the complications and treatment for complications >10 years after the device has been implanted. Here we describe a transforaminal endoscopic diskectomy procedure for a patient presenting with foot drop 12 years after a L5-S1 total disk replacement.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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