Abbreviations:
HERNIATED INTERVERTEBRAL DISC
confidence intervalhealth-related quality of lifeinterlaminar endoscopic discectomylumbar disc herniationnumerical rating scaleOswestry disability indexpercutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomytransforaminal endoscopic discectomyThe authors have no funding to disclose.The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Ethics Committee of Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice No EK:9N-2015. The study was registered in ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02742311, April 19, 2016).Written informed consent has been obtained from the patients to publish this paper.The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.How to cite this article: Rapčan R, Kočan L, Witkovsky V, Rapčanová S, Mláka J, Tirpák R, Burianek M, Kočanová H, Vašková J, Gajdoš M. Endoscopic discectomy of the herniated intervertebral disc and changes in quality-of-life EQ-5D-5L analysis. Medicine 2023;102:26(e34188).