OBJECTIVE: to describe a minimally invasive technique to treat lumbar disc herniation with low-cost material. METHODS: this is a prospective evaluation of ten patients submitted to a tubular lumbar microdiscectomy with disposable syringes for herniated disc. The modified MacNab criteria were used to evaluate the surgical results. RESULTS: according to the modified MacNab criteria, surgical results were divided in: excellent in 60%, good in 30% and reasonable in 10%. The mean surgical time was 70 minutes and the mean hospital stay was 14 hours. CONCLUSION: the minimal invasive tubular microdiscectomy with disposable syringes is a feasible technique which obtains good results at a low cost, and the surgical results were similar to the recent literature about the treatment of herniated lumbar disc disease.
Diskectomy; Lumbar vertebrae; Intervertebral disk displacement; Surgical procedures, minimally invasive; Treatment outcome
