Anxiety and depression assessments in students of a primary school near disaster areas after the earthquake on September 19, 2017, in Mexico City

Introduction According to the World Health Organization, currently, about 17 million children and adolescents, between 5 and 17 years of age, suffer from a serious psychological disorder that warrants specialized treatment. Anxiety disorders are common conditions in childhood and adolescence1, with a worldwide prevalence that ranges between 4% and 32% in the medical literature2. Anxiety […]

Endoscopic surgery in the lumbar spine: experience of the ABC Medical Center

Introduction The history of percutaneous full-endoscopic spine surgery dated to 1989 when Schreiber, Suezawa, and Leu added a “discoscopy” to the percutaneous discectomy described first by Hijikata in 1975 and later popularized by Kambin, who added the description of the security triangle that holds his name, to approach the intervertebral dfisk on 19861. Later Mayer […]