Isolated discogenic cervical pain syndromes are somewhat difficult to treat.
Many of these patients have underlying painful degenerative conditions of the cervical
spine that do not meet accepted criteria for surgical treatments. Hence, many of these
patients remain untreated or undergo interventional pain management procedures to
meliorate the pain. The author presents a simple endoscopic outpatient method
intended to treat a small subsection of this patient population complaining of isolated
neck pain without any arm pain. Often these patients have end-stage degenerative
cervical disc disease with near complete collapse with minimal associated foraminal
stenosis. The author presents an endoscopic interbody fusion technique he has
developed for these types for patients using an autograft bone dowel harvested from the
iliac crest.
Keywords: Autograft, Cervical spine, Degenerative disc disease, Discogenic
pain, Dowel graft, Endoscopic, Iliac crest graft, Minimally invasive, Outpatient
surgery, Percutaneous.
