TY - JOUR AU - Krzok, Guntram AU - Telfeian, Albert E. AU - Wagner, Ralf AU - Hofstetter, Christoph P. AU - Iprenburg, Menno PY - 2017 TI - Contralateral facet-sparing sublaminar endoscopic foraminotomy for the treatment of lumbar lateral recess stenosis: technical note JF - Journal of Spine Surgery; Vol 3, No 2 (June 30, 2017): Journal of Spine Surgery Y2 - 2017 KW - N2 - Lumbar lateral recess stenosis that results from a degenerative bulging of the disc and overgrowth of the facet is a very common cause for lumbar radiculopathy in the elderly. The standard surgical treatment for symptomatic lumbar lateral recess stenosis often requires a laminectomy or hemi-laminectomy and medial facetectomy which can further destabilize a pathological motion segment. The authors present here a novel technique for contralateral endoscopic access to the lateral recess pathology that is truly minimally invasive and spares most of the facet joint complex: 6 patient cases are described where lateral recess stenosis pathology was accessed from a contralateral sublaminar endoscopic approach. UR - https://jss.amegroups.org/article/view/3803