is a method of performing spine surgery that announced the beginning of the period of minimally invasive spinal neurosurgery in the nineties of the past century.

An American neurosurgeon Parviz Kambin was the first who in 1991. published the results of the treatment he called arthroscopic microdiscectomy.

Since then, and with the advance of technology and acquiring new knowledge about disc disorders, endoscopic spinal neurosurgery has been rapidly evolving worldwide and enabling more superior approach to spinal surgery.