Emergency Hybrid Treatment Strategy in Abdominal Aortic Injury during Microdiscectomy Operation: A Rare Case Report

Iatrogenic abdominal aortic injuries were previously reported during classical lumbar disc hernia repair. Microdiscectomy technique begun to used widely with time instead classical lumbar disc hernia due to its minimally invasive nature. Recently, microdiscectomy method is preferred more frequently among these methods. Small incisions, good exposures and low risk of bleeding are known advantages of the microdiscectomy method compared to the classical method. There was no iatrogenic abdominal aortic injury during microdiscectomy surgery reported in literature, as our knowledge. In this report, it is aimed to present a 62-year-old female patient who underwent an operation due to lumbar disc herniation and who had aortic injury during microdiscectomy in the neurosurgery clinic and emergently treated with endovascular aortic repair method