Feasibility and Efficacy of Percutaneous Lateral Lumbar Discectomy in the Treatment of Patients with Lumbar Disc Herniation: A Preliminary Experience

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of the enrolled patients.

Characteristics	Value or number of patients (%)
Age, years	46 (21–66)
BMI (kg/m^2)	23.1 ± 3.4
Male	102 (55.7)
Previous treatments of disk herniation
PLD	15 (8.2)
Intervertebral discolysis with collagenase	4 (2.2)
PLDD	3 (1.6)
Open surgery^*	4 (2.2)
Location of disk herniation
Only L3-4	26 (14.2)
Only L4-5	143 (78.1)
L3-4 and L4-5	14 (7.7)

BMI: body mass index; PLD: percutaneous lumbar discectomy; PLDD: percutaneous laser disc decompression surgery.
^*The surgery was performed in the different positions with LDH.