diskectomy

An additional 20,000 are treated with the percutaneous diskectomy, while about 4,000 receive chymopapain.

In a newer procedure, percutaneous automated diskectomy, a small probe is inserted through the skin into the disk.

The most common procedures include laminectomy, removal of a bony section of the spine, and diskectomy, removing a section of a herniated disk.

The book had its source in an accident that damaged one of Sims's cervical disks, leading to a diskectomy that forced him to lie immobile on his back for two weeks.