Journal of Spine

Anthony T Yeung

Publications

• Opinion Article
  Development of Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy (PELD)Technology in China
  Author(s): Xifeng Zhang, Jianwei Du and Anthony T YeungXifeng Zhang, Jianwei Du and Anthony T Yeung
  
  Introduction: The history and development of endoscopic spine surgery (PELD) in China is reviewed. Its significance and effect is predicted to have great implications for advancing spine care in China’s working and aging population. Percutaneous spine technology was introduced simultaneously from Japan and the United states by Hijikata and Kambin in the early 1980s. It was called Arthroscopic Microdiscectomy (AMD). The access portal was called “Kambin’s Triangle, with the discectomy technique through a “safe” puncture portal through an anatomical triangular zone in the foramen bordered by the facet and foraminal ligament dorsally, the exiting nerve ventrally, and the endplate of the caudal margin of the triangle. Method: An expanded indication for the transforaminal Kambin technique was introduced to China by An.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7939.1000376

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