Description: This stock medical exhibit depicts multilevel lumbar spine injuries with percutaneous laser decompression. The first image shows the pre-operative condition with disc bulges at L2-3 and L3-4 and herniations at L4-5 and L5-S1. The remaining images show multiple steps of the laser decompression, including the insertion of a needle into the L4-5 disc and laser decompression of the disc.

Last Updated: Jan 18th, 2011