BACKGROUND Cervical Deuk Laser Disc Repair(®) is a novel full-endoscopic, anterior cervical, trans-discal, motion preserving, laser assisted, nonfusion, outpatient surgical procedure to safely treat symptomatic cervical disc diseases including herniation, spondylosis, stenosis, and annular tears. Here we describe a new endoscopic approach to cervical disc disease that allows direct visualizatio...

The history, pathoanatomy and pathophysiology, clinical picture, differential diagnosis, diagnostic evaluation, and treatment of cervical radiculopathy are reviewed. The review is based on a 10-year Medline literature search, review of bibliographies in textbooks, and bibliographies in articles obtained through the search. Cervical radiculopathy, although recognized early in the 20th century, w...

Cervical intervertebral disc herniation, or a slipped disc, is a common orthopedic disease in canines. The standard surgical treatment used to relieve the herniation is the ventral slot technique, wherein a small slot is created by drilling into a neighboring vertebral body and the intervertebral space to relieve the pressure. However, the defects created in the disc, vertebral body, and adjace...

Horner syndrome (HS) occurs when there is interruption of the oculosympathetic pathway. The causes of HS are various, but HS originated from herniated cervical disc is very few. HS attributable to the lesion of the first-order neuron of cervical spinal cord is extremely rare. A 41-year old male was admitted for sudden onset of left ptosis and right side numbness. Neurological examination reveal...

A 60 year old man was admitted with a 1–2 year history of increasing dysphagia causing weight loss and a 5–10 year history of progressive gait disturbance with stiVness and muscle twitches in both legs. Urgency micturition had recently developed, which was ascribed to the patient’s known hypertrophy of the prostate. Except for prostatism and lumbago, his medical history was unremarkable. Althou...