TY - JOUR AU - Choi, Kyung-Chul AU - Kim, Jin-Sung AU - Lee, Dong Chan AU - Park, Choon-Keun PY - 2017 DA - 2017/08/01 TI - Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy: minimally invasive technique for multiple episodes of lumbar disc herniation JO - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders SP - 329 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Although open lumbar discectomy is a gold standard surgical technique for lumbar disc herniation (LDH), surgery-induced tissue injury may actually become a source of postsurgical pain. Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy (PELD) is introduced as a minimal invasive spinal technique for LDH. The PELD has gained popularity and shown successful results. The authors report the clinical usefulness of the PELD technique in two patients with the serial multilevel LDHs. SN - 1471-2474 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1697-8 DO - 10.1186/s12891-017-1697-8 ID - Choi2017 ER -