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Background and Objective: : The incidence of obesity has risen steadily to epidemic proportions in many regions of the world. Surgeons often encounter problems in surgeries on the obese patients. In this study, we evaluated the effect of Body Mass Index (
Amir Abbas Ghasemi +4 more
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Facet-sparing lumbar decompression with a minimally invasive flexible MicroBlade Shaver® versus traditional decompression: quantitative radiographic assessment. [PDF]
BackgroundLaminectomy/laminotomy and foraminotomy are well established surgical techniques for treatment of symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis. However, these procedures have significant limitations, including limited access to lateral and foraminal ...
Berven, Sigurd +6 more
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Avaliação da artrodese e do alinhamento cervical após discectomia cervical com interposição de polimetilmetacrilato [PDF]
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Surgical treatment of cervical radiculopathy with or without myelopathy is a controversy issue, although anterior discectomy is the most common form of treatment.
Amantea, Andrea Vieira +4 more
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Percutaneous laser microdiscectomy in the treatment of thoracic intervertebral disc protrusions
One of the causes of thoracalgia is a protrusion of the thoracic intervertebral discs (IVD). Treatment of these protrusions is often ineffective. Objective: To improve the outcomes of treatment of thoracalgia caused by protrusions of the thoracic IVD ...
M. Zorin, Tamara V. Zorina
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Anxiety, fears and fear-avoidance beliefs and therapeutic outcome after lumbar microdiscectomy
Microdiscectomy is one of the surgical methods for the treatment of herniated intervertebral disc in patients with low back pain. The aim of the research was to evaluate the presence of psychological and cognitive-behavioral factors, including anxiety,
Slobodan Pantelinac +3 more
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Inferior Mesenteric Artery Injury in Post-lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Case Report
Iatrogenic vascular injury during lumbar microdiscectomy is a rather rare complication, but it can have fatal consequences. Here, we report a patient who underwent an L5-S1 microdiscectomy, which was complicated by inferior mesenteric artery injury.
Abdullah K Aljohani +8 more
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Comparative Outcome Analyses of Differently Surgical Approaches to Lumbar Disc Herniation [PDF]
Lumbar disc herniations (LDH) occur in the lower back, most often between the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebral bodies or between the fifth and the sacrum.
Bruno Splavski +6 more
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Aim: To evaluate the role of lumbar sacralization (LS) on the surgical outcomes of L4-L5 microdiscectomy. Methods: This prospective cohort study was conducted in a university referral hospital.
Pouya Omidi +9 more
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Unilateral discectomy: outcomes, postoperative pain, complications
In low back pain management surgery is currently commonly used with a new technique called minimally invasive discectomy, while open discectomy is still preferable in many cases.
Fatemeh Mahboub Mojaz +2 more
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Objective To compare the long-term clinical and radiographic outcomes of transforaminal endoscopic lumbar discectomy (TELD) versus microdiscectomy (MD). Methods The data of 154 patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH) who underwent TELD (n = 89) or MD (
Xinyu Yang +9 more
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