Percutaneous discectomy offers many advantages over other techniques. Here are some:

• The spine is not injured.
• At no time are phenomena of fibrosis or spinal instability, as with classic surgery.
• The patient does not need hospitalization, is ambulatory, the patient enters the morning and leaves in the afternoon.
• No need general anesthesia (but during the sedation is always an anesthesiologist).
• The work of the surgeon is less and shorter, all this makes percutaneous disectomy (removal of herniated discs through the skin).
• The time of rest a week never passes and hence are lost through absenteeism infinitely less than with conventional surgery.
• Even the Insurance Companies pay for a procedure such as percutaneous disectomy which would cost 60% less than traditional surgery is a big advantage.

With this new method, without being hospitalized patient gets a date for a specific day in the morning, without hospitalization and at night will be at home, being able to reintegrate to work in a few days. All this and more makes the Percutaneous Discectomy is a method with many advantages and truly revolutionary.

Conclusions

• Useful in bulging disk.
• Outpatient procedure
• Local anesthesia.
• Minimum Incision.
• No epidural fibrosis.
• Coplicaciones minimal.
• Low cost as compared with standard surgery