Results of microsurgical lumbar discectomy
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Acta Neurochirurgica
- Vol. 81 (1-2), 45-52
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01456264
Abstract
485 patients with a lumbar disc herniation were operated upon microsurgically. The results, the rate of complications and true recurrent herniations will be presented. The results of the microsurgical technique are compared to the results of the conventional technique. The final outcome after the microsurgical operation was excellent in 39%, good in 34% and satisfactory in 19%, 9% of the patients had a poor final outcome. The results obtained with microsurgery are attained with the standard techniques only by few groups, probably highly experienced surgeons. Following microsurgery a uniformly high percentage (88–98%) of results are reported as being satisfactory, whereas the analogous figures range between 40 and 98% following the standard technique.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- Microdiscectomy versus ChemonucleolysisNeurosurgery, 1985
- Microlumbar discectomy: Follow‐up of 477 patientsMicrosurgery, 1980
- Prospective study of 100 lumbosacral discectomiesJournal of Neurosurgery, 1979
- Personality Factors and Results of Lumbar Disc SurgeryNeurosurgery, 1979
- Microsurgical Lumbar DiscectomyNeurosurgery, 1979
- Microlumbar DiscectomySpine, 1978
- Results of Operative Treatment of Lumbar Disc Herniation:A Survey of 886 PatientsActa Orthopaedica, 1977
- Lumbago und Wurzelischialgie*Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (1946), 1968
- Results of Operative Treatment of Protruded and Ruptured Lumbar DiscsJournal of Neurosurgery, 1961
- HERNIATED LUMBAR INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS—AN ANALYSIS OF 1176 OPERATED CASESJournal Of Trauma-Injury Infection and Critical Care, 1961