Due to the special anatomical characteristics of thoracic spine, surgery is the only effective way to treat thoracic spinal stenosis. Traditional open surgery is highly traumatic and risky, but it is still regarded as the gold standard for the treatment of the disease. With the development of computer and endoscopic technology, endoscopic technology represented by transforaminal endoscopic surgical system has been widely used in the treatment of cervical and lumbar vertebral diseases, and has achieved good results in recent 10 years. On this basis, domestic and foreign experts have applied endoscopic techniques to the treatment of thoracic spinal stenosis and also achieved good results. The development of endoscopic techniques in the treatment of thoracic spinal stenosis was summarized and reviewed in this paper.
Keywords: Review literature; Spinal canal stenosis; Spinal endoscopy; Thoracic vertebra.
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