TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Percutaneous Disc Decompressions A1 - Bakshi, Sanjay A1 - Abrahamsen, Gerard W. A2 - Diwan, Sudhir A2 - Staats, Peter S. PY - 2015 T2 - Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures AB - Percutaneous disc decompression (PDD) is a minimally invasive procedure performed under fluoroscopic guidance for the treatment of lower back with or without radiation to the lower extremities secondary to a lumbar herniated nucleus propulsus. There are many different techniques described for performing PDD. These include chemonucleolysis using chymopapain, automated percutaneous lumbar decompression (APLD) using a nucleotome, percutaneous discectomy, laser discectomy, nucleoplasty, and dekompressor.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 The primary goal of all of these procedures is to reduce pressure in the disc and remove disc material. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/20 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1107197504 ER -