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Remember Laterality Rules on Electrothermal Annuloplasty

Published on Thu Sep 05, 2024

Question: A patient with lumbar spondylolysis reports to the surgeon for percutaneous intradiscal electrothermal annuloplasty. Under fluoroscopic guidance, the surgeon inserts a needle for guidance, then passes a catheter probe into the annulus fibrosis and attaches the catheter to a generator to heat the catheter and decompress the disc material. This procedure was performed bilaterally on the lumbar area. How should [...]
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