62 results match your criteria: "St.-Anna-Hospital Herne.[Affiliation]"

Object: Extensive decompression with laminectomy where appropriate is often still described as the method of choice in surgery for lateral recess stenosis. Nonetheless, tissue-sparing procedures are becoming more common. Endoscopic techniques have become the standard in many areas because of the advantages they offer in surgical technique and in rehabilitation.

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Study Design: Prospective, randomized, controlled study of patients with recurrent lumbar disc herniations after conventional discectomy, operated either in a full-endoscopic or microsurgical technique.

Objective: Comparison of results of lumbar revision discectomies in full-endoscopic interlaminar and transforaminal technique with the conventional microsurgical technique.

Summary Of Background Data: Recurrences after lumbar disc operations cannot be prevented.

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Full-endoscopic anterior decompression versus conventional anterior decompression and fusion in cervical disc herniations.

Int Orthop

December 2009

Department of Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, St. Anna-Hospital Herne, University of Witten/Herdecke, Hospitalstrasse 19, 44649, Herne, Germany.

Anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) is the standard for cervical discectomies. With the full-endoscopic anterior cervical discectomy (FACD) a minimally invasive procedure is available. The objective of this prospective, randomised, controlled study was to compare the results of FACD with those of ACDF in mediolateral soft disc herniations.

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Full-endoscopic cervical posterior foraminotomy for the operation of lateral disc herniations using 5.9-mm endoscopes: a prospective, randomized, controlled study.

Spine (Phila Pa 1976)

April 2008

Department of Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, St. Anna-Hospital Herne, University of Witten/Herdecke, Herne, Germany.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized, controlled study of patients with lateral cervical disc herniations, operated either in a full-endoscopic posterior or conventional microsurgical anterior technique.

Objective: Comparison of results of cervical discectomies in full-endoscopic posterior foraminotomy technique with the conventional microsurgical anterior decompression and fusion.

Summary Of Background Data: Anterior cervical decompression and fusion is the standard procedure for operation of cervical disc herniations with radicular arm pain.

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Full-endoscopic interlaminar and transforaminal lumbar discectomy versus conventional microsurgical technique: a prospective, randomized, controlled study.

Spine (Phila Pa 1976)

April 2008

Department of Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, St. Anna-Hospital Herne, University of Witten/Herdecke, Herne, Germany.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized, controlled study of patients with lumbar disc herniations, operated either in a full-endoscopic or microsurgical technique.

Objective: Comparison of results of lumbar discectomies in full-endoscopic interlaminar and transforaminal technique with the conventional microsurgical technique.

Summary Of Background Data: Even with good results, conventional disc operations may result in subsequent damage due to trauma.

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A new full-endoscopic technique for cervical posterior foraminotomy in the treatment of lateral disc herniations using 6.9-mm endoscopes: prospective 2-year results of 87 patients.

Minim Invasive Neurosurg

August 2007

Department of Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, St. Anna-Hospital Herne, at the Department of Radiology and Microtherapy, University of Witten/Herdecke, Herne, Germany.

Anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) is the standard procedure for operation of cervical disc herniations with radicular arm pain. Mobility-preserving posterior foraminotomy is the most common alternative in the case of a lateral localization of the pathology. Despite good clinical results, problems may arise due to traumatization of the access.

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Object: Even with good results, conventional disc operations may result in subsequent damage due to trauma. Endoscopic techniques have become the standard in many areas because of the advantages they offer intraoperatively and postoperatively in rehabilitation. The goal of this prospective study was to examine the expanded technical possibilities of full-endoscopic transforaminal and interlaminar resection of herniated lumbar discs in which the authors used newly developed optics and instruments.

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A New full-endoscopic technique for the interlaminar operation of lumbar disc herniations using 6-mm endoscopes: prospective 2-year results of 331 patients.

Minim Invasive Neurosurg

April 2006

Department for Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Centre for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, St. Anna-Hospital Herne, University of Witten/Herdecke, Herne, Germany.

Even with good results, conventional disc operations may result in consecutive damage due to traumatisation. Endoscopic techniques have become the standard in many areas because of the advantages they offer in surgical technique and in rehabilitation. The transforaminal operation is the most common full-endoscopic procedure in surgery of the lumbar spine.

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Introduction: Despite the increasing acceptance of the TEP-procedure by patients and general practitioners this method has to be further examined. In addition to the classic surgical criteria of examination, subjective aspects of patient comfort must be taken into consideration as they are getting more and more significant for the evaluation of different methods.

Methods: According to this targets patients were clinically examined and questioned about specific topics regarding their quality of life after TEP-surgery and evaluated prospectively.

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Introduction: Despite the increasing acceptance of the TAPP-procedure by patients and general practitioners this method has to be further examined. In addition to the classic surgical criteria of examination, subjective aspects of patient comfort must be taken into consideration as they are getting more and more significant for the evaluation of different methods.

Methods: According to this objective patients were clinically examined and questioned about specific topics of quality of life after TAPP-operations.

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Strahlenther Onkol

June 2004

Abteilung Strahlentherapie und spezielle Onkologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Deutschland.

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[Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) using an 8-pole electrode and double-electrode system as minimally invasive therapy of the post-discotomy and post-fusion syndrome--prospective study results in 34 patients].

Z Orthop Ihre Grenzgeb

August 2003

Klinik für Orthopädie am Lehrstuhl für Radiologie und Mikrotherapie, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Ressort Wirbelsäulenchirurgie und Schmerztherapie, St.-Anna-Hospital Herne, Deutschland, Germany.

Aim: Therapy of a pronounced post-discotomy (PDS) and post-fusion syndrome (PFS) is often unsatisfactory because of the complexity and multifactorial pain genesis. If surgical interventions cannot promise relief and if the entire interdisciplinary spectrum of conservative treatment measures is inadequate, the area of neuromodulative procedures offers spinal cord stimulation (SCS). The objective of this study was to examine the therapeutic possibilities of SCS using an 8-pole electrode and double electrode system in PDS and PFS with extensive back-leg pain areas.

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