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Old 08-02-2010, 01:27 PM
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Retrospective one year study of PLDD versus micro-discectomy (interlaminectomy), dr. Robert Saftic and his team:

Percutaneous laser disk decompression – our experience with the usage of the diode laser

Patients included in this study all had contained disc herniation.

It shows little higher success rate with PLDD and of course less complications ... but imagine how much tissue damage occurred during micro-discectomy comparing to PLDD.

2 year follow-up results are to be published in near future.
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