Clinical Summary
Cervical Outcome
Physician - Clinical - Cervical
Clinical - Cervical Nucleoplasty Clinical Outcome:
Percutaneous cervical Nucleoplasty using Coblation Technology.
Clinical results in Fifty Consecutive Cases.
P.V. Nardi, D. Cabezas, and A. Cesaroni
Acta Neurochir (2005)
[Suppl] 92: 73-78
Key Point
Significant positive results in cases of contained herniated cervical disc/focal
protrusions when compared to conservative care.
Analysis
• 50 consecutive patients treated with contained herniated disc or focal protrusion
treated with Nucleoplasty procedure.
• 20 patients in control group treated with conservative care.
• Nucleoplasty group showed complete resolution of symptoms in 80 percent of patients.
Outcome
• Complete resolution of symptoms in 80 percent of patients in Nucleoplasty group.
Plasma Radio-Frequency Based Discectomy for Treatment
of Cervical Herniated Nucleus Pulposis; Feasibility, Safety and Preliminary Clinical
Results.
G. Bonaldi, F. Baruzzi, A. Facchinetti,
P. Fachinetti and S. Lunghi
Am J. Neuroradiol., (2006) 27: 2104- 2111
Key Point
Safe low risk procedure causing minimal discomfort to patients.
Analysis
• Aim: to assess feasibility, safety and preliminary clinical results.
• 55 patients with radicular pain (3 with mild myelopathy) treated over a 29 month
period.
• Good or excellent results in 80% of patients at 2 months, and 85 % of patients
at 6 months.
• Most cases performed under local anesthesia on an out patient basis.
• One clinical complication, infectious discitis, treated successfully.
• One technical complication, rupture of device tip, patient remained asymptomatic
at 2 year
follow-up.
Outcome
• Procedure is minimally invasive, low risk, easy to perform.
• Minimal discomfort to patient and effective in short term.