Most of the site will reflect the ongoing surgical activity of Prof. Munir Elias MD., PhD. with brief slides and weekly activity. For reference to the academic and theoretical part, you are welcome to visit  neurosurgery.tv

The patient  started to complain of LBP for 7 months with right sciatica with numbness of the right foot and scoliotic stance. MRI showed extruded disc L5-S1. On examination there was weak planter and dorsiflexion all toes right foot with hypalgesia of the right S1 dermatome. The patient was operated and right L5-S1 was performed with foraminotomy of right S1 root. The extruded disc was removed and minimal cleaning of the disc space was performed.