Transthoracic Discectomy [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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====== Transthoracic Discectomy ======

A video concerns a 48-yr-old woman who presented with worsening mid-back pain and progressive gait difficulty. Her examination was significant for proximal lower extremity muscle weakness, difficulty with tandem gait, and urinary incontinence. Imaging demonstrated a large T7-8 disc herniation causing severe spinal cord compression. The patient underwent T7-8 transthoracic discectomy and interbody fusion. She tolerated the procedure well without complication, and postoperative imaging demonstrated decompression of her spinal cord. On follow-up, she had improved mid-back pain, strength, and ambulatory function.The patient consented to the recording of this surgical video for potential publication
((Saadeh YS, Khalsa SS, Smith BW, Joseph JR, Khorfan RF, Park P. Transthoracic
Discectomy for Symptomatic Thoracic Disc Herniation: 2-Dimensional Operative
Video. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2019 Jan 18. doi: 10.1093/ons/opy407. [Epub
ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30668873.
)).

https://academic.oup.com/ons/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ons/opy407/5292651