Microsurgical lumbar discectomy: A personal series of 300 patients with at least 1 year of follow‐up
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Microsurgery
- Vol. 7 (2), 55-62
- https://doi.org/10.1002/micr.1920070202
Abstract
A personal series of 300 cases of lumbar disc disease treated by microsurgical lumbar discectomy is presented. Follow-up is available in all cases. Good to excellent results are reported in 94% of the patients. Six patients (2%) have needed repeat surgery at the same level, all with good results. One of these six patients has had third-time exploration at the same level. There has been no mortality; one patient had a superficial wound infection, two suffered from minor pulmonary embolii, and one patient had an MI in the postoperative period. Surgical technique as used by the author is discussed.Keywords
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