percutaneous diskectomy

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Neurosurgery A form of diskectomy for managing lumbar disk prolapse Outcomes 67% relief of leg pain vs 98% pain relief for standard laminotomy-diskectomy; PD is confined to situations in which disk herniation is contained and neural compression is not produced by a free fragment of bone. Cf Microsurgical diskectomy.

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