{"title":"Laserectomy of the human nucleus pulposus and intradiscal pressure measurements: an in vitro and in vivo study","authors":"H. Ranu","doi":"10.1109/SBEC.1995.514494","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A new treatment technique has been developed to relieve the herniated disc symptoms. An Nd:YAG laser is used to vaporize a small volume of the nucleus pulposus and thus regressing the spinal disc. In vitro and in vivo intradiscal pressures are measured before, during and after laserectomy. The results show a significant reduction in intradiscal pressures after laserectomy, as a small volume of the nucleus pulposus is ablated.","PeriodicalId":332563,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1995 Fourteenth Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 1995 Fourteenth Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SBEC.1995.514494","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A new treatment technique has been developed to relieve the herniated disc symptoms. An Nd:YAG laser is used to vaporize a small volume of the nucleus pulposus and thus regressing the spinal disc. In vitro and in vivo intradiscal pressures are measured before, during and after laserectomy. The results show a significant reduction in intradiscal pressures after laserectomy, as a small volume of the nucleus pulposus is ablated.
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