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PERCUTANEOUS AUTOMATED NUCLEOTOMY İN THE DİAGNOSİS AND TREATMENT OF A HERNIATED JUVENILE CERVICAL INTERVERTEBRAL DISC CALCIFICATION : CASE REPORT *

  • Arif ÖSÜN
  • Serhat ERBAYRAKTAR
  • Ümit ACAR

J Turk Spinal Surg 1995;6(2):96-99

A nine-year old female patient with a resistent neck pain and torticollis had a mass lesion compressing the dura at C2-3 disc level. We performed percutaneous automated nudeotomy technique easily under local anesthe-sia either to decompress dura, and to make differential diagnosis. She had a rapid relief of pain and spasm after surgery, and the decompression vvas satisfactory on her postoperative cervical magnetic resonance images. The bacteriological investigations were negative, and the histopathological diagnosis vvas a calcified and degenerated disc tissue. So, we recommend nucleotome as an alternative procedure in approaching certain cervical spine pa-thologies for either diagnosis or treatment.

Keywords: Automated percutaneous discectomy, discitis, intervertebral disc, spinal calsification.