Treatment and prophylaxis of scarry and comissural lumbosacral radiculopathies

Abstract

Aiming at treatment of compressive-comissural radiculopathies in patients with lumbar damage with discs involvement surgical treatment was used including set of procedures, directed to minimization of scarry and comissural process and its consequences in microsurgery of lumbar disease with discs damage. Peculiarities of surgical approach to the structures of vertebral canal, reconstructive elements of surgery, and also techniques of implantation of silicon microneuroprotectors and polytetrafluoroethylenic spinal membranes into neural structures zones are discussed. The proposed complex of surgical measures provides maximal decompression of neural structures of vertebral cord, their protection from the effect of musculocutaneous scars and fibrous tissues and positive results of treatment.

Keywords

Bekhterev neurology archive

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