METHOD FOR AIMED LASER DECOMPRESSION OF INTERVERTEBRAL DISKS Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC A61B6/00 A61K49/04 A61N5/67 

FIELD: medicine, laser surgery.

SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with treating neuroorthopedic vertebral diseases: it is necessary to apply a puncture needle into an affected disk, introduce a needle of laser light guide, form the canals in the disk under laser action and fulfill direct retrograde vaporization of disk's hernia under the control of visualization means. Moreover, hernial vaporization should be carried out under roentgenocontrast control - discography, or myelography, or disko-myelography at introducing a contrast substance into the disk or a dural sac, or into the disk and the dural sac, correspondingly. Application of the present method enables to obtain specifying significant information in the course of operation on localization of hernial formations at different degree of disk's lesion at decreasing radiation loading upon a patient and, also, enables to simplify the process of operation and shorten the time for fulfilling it without any detriment to its quality.

EFFECT: higher efficiency.

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