Transforaminal endoscopic surgery under local analgesia for ventral epidural thoracic spinal tumor: Case report

Abstract

Operative management for ventral epidural spinal tumors typcally involves either a costotransversectomy approach or, less requently, a trans-thoracic approach that requires a corpectomy nd fusion. Transforaminal endoscopic spine surgery has been eported for the treatment of lumbar herniated discs (including far ateral and extruded), lumbar spondylolisthesis, lumbar juxtafacet ysts, lumbar discitis and even in the treatment neuropathic pain aused by a T11 colon metastases [1–7]. We report here the first ase of a ventral thoracic epidural spine tumor surgically treated ith a complete endoscopic spinal procedure via the foramen in an wake patient.