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- noun Alternative spelling of
discectomy .
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Examples
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I think he is saying that since large numbers of folks are"exposed" to the risk of diskectomy a sham controlled RCT would be justified to learn the answer to the question, " Is the procedure justified?"
Archive 2006-11-01 james gaulte 2006
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Surgery was a diskectomy with at most a small portion of the superior facet being removed and a disc fragment removed and the nerve root decompressed.
Archive 2006-11-01 james gaulte 2006
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This, I think, is a type of public health style justification implying that diskectomy is some sort of risk that people are exposed to against their will as opposed to a decision made by the individual patient to undergo the procedure.
Archive 2006-11-01 james gaulte 2006
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The older method, microdiskectomy, is done through a larger incision than that used for transmuscular tubular diskectomy, the minimally invasive technique that was introduced in 1997 and has gained wide popularity.
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"The expected treatment benefit of a faster rate of recovery from sciatica after tubular diskectomy could not be reproduced by this double-blind study," according to a report in the July 8 issue of the
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This model confirmed that a minimalistic alternative to a diskectomy, such as oxygen / ozone treatment, is capable of relieving the pain caused by a herniated disk without causing irreparable damage.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Currently, open diskectomy and microdiskectomy (both involving removal of disk material through an incision) are the standards in surgical treatment for herniated disk.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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"We are still working on our subgroup analysis, but possibly the tubular diskectomy is indicated in obese patients in whom a large incision and exposure is inevitable," he said.
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"In addition, the recovery time is significantly shorter for the oxygen / ozone injection than for the diskectomy," said Murphy.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Undergoing invasive surgical diskectomy puts you on a path where you may be left with too little disk.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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