著者
Naoto Suzue Tetsuya Matsuura Toshiyuki Iwame Kosaku Higashino Toshinori Sakai Daisuke Hamada Tomohiro Goto Yoichiro Takata Toshihiko Nishisho Yuichiro Goda Takahiko Tsutsui Ichiro Tonogai Ryo Miyagi Mitsunobu Abe Masatoshi Morimoto Kazuaki Mineta Tetsuya Kimura Akihiro Nitta Tadahiro Higuchi Shingo Hama Subash C. Jha Rui Takahashi Shoji Fukuta Koichi Sairyo
出版者
徳島大学医学部
雑誌
The Journal of Medical Investigation (ISSN:13431420)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.62, no.3.4, pp.109-113, 2015 (Released:2015-09-18)
参考文献数
39
被引用文献数
2 14

Athletes sometimes experience overuse injuries. To diagnose these injuries, ultrasonography is often more useful than plain radiography, computed tomography (CT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Ultrasonography can show both bone and soft tissue from various angles as needed, providing great detail in many cases. In conditions such as osteochondrosis or enthesopathies such as Osgood-Schlatter disease, Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease, bipartite patella, osteochondritis dissecans of the knee, painful accessory navicular,and jumper's knee, ultrasonography can reveal certain types of bony irregularities or neovascularization of the surrounding tissue. In patients of enthesopathy, ultrasonography can show the degenerative changes at the insertion of the tendon. Given its usefulness in treatment, ultrasonography is expected to become essential in the management of overuse injuries affecting the lower limb in athletes. J. Med. Invest. 62: 109-113, August, 2015
著者
Koichi Sairyo Kosaku Higashino Kazuta Yamashita Fumio Hayashi Keizo Wada Toshinori Sakai Yoichiro Takata Fumitake Tezuka Masatoshi Morimoto Tomoya Terai Takashi Chikawa Hiroshi Yonezu Akihiro Nagamachi Yoshihiro Fukui
出版者
徳島大学医学部
雑誌
The Journal of Medical Investigation (ISSN:13431420)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.64, no.1.2, pp.1-6, 2017 (Released:2017-03-29)
参考文献数
32
被引用文献数
30

Percutaneous endoscopic surgery for the lumbar spine, which was established in the last decade, requires only an 8-mm skin incision and causes minimal damage to the paravertebral muscles; thus, it is considered to be a minimally invasive technique for spinal surgery. It has been used to perform percutaneous endoscopic discectomy via two main approaches: the TF approach is a posterolateral one through the intervertebral foramen and can be done under local anesthesia; the IL approach is a more traditional one through the interlaminar space and is difficult to perform under local anesthesia. Recently, these techniques have been applied for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), the TF method for foraminal stenosis under local anesthesia, and the IL method for central and lateral recess stenosis under general anesthesia. In this study, using a fresh human cadaver model, we performed simultaneous decompression of the lateral recess and foraminal stenosis at L4-5 using the TF approach. Computed tomography confirmed enlargement of the lateral recess and intervertebral foramen. This technique, which can be performed under local anesthesia, should benefit elderly patients with LSS and poor general condition due to multiple comorbidities. Finally, we introduce the concept of percutaneous transforaminal ventral facetectomy using a spinal percutaneous endoscope. J. Med. Invest. 64: 1-6, February, 2017