Trial reportEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2010
Clinical outcomes of patients with lumbar disc herniation, selected for one-level open-discectomy and microdiscectomy.
Trial report in European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Incidence of Low Back Pain After Lumbar Discectomy for Herniated Disc and Its Effect on Patient-reported Outcomes.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2015Pooled it
- A Review of Endoscopic Spine Surgery: Decompression for Radiculopathy.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Review
- Biopsychosocial variations in quality of life outcome following microdiscectomy.Surgical neurology international · 2020Article
- Preliminary efficacy of inter-spinal distraction fusion which is a new technique for lumbar disc herniation.International orthopaedics · 2019Article
- Recurrence Is Associated With Body Mass Index in Patients Undergoing a Single-Level Lumbar Disc Herniation Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2018Article
- Multidimensional long-term outcome analysis after single-level lumbar microdiscectomy: a retrospective single-centre study.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2018Article
- How does accounting for worker productivity affect the measured cost-effectiveness of lumbar discectomy?Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2014Article
- The surgical treatment of single level multi-focal subarticular and paracentral and/or far-lateral lumbar disc herniations: the single incision full endoscopic approach.International journal of spine surgery · 2014Article
- A decade's experience in lumbar spine surgery in Belgium: sickness fund beneficiaries, 2000-2009.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2012Article
- Recovery of muscle strength after microdiscectomy for lumbar disc herniation: a prospective cohort study with 1-year follow-up.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2012Article
- Unfolding the Truth; the Way Towards Painfree Spine Surgery.Asian journal of neurosurgeryArticle
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Abstract
The aim of our study was twofold: firstly, to compare the preoperative and postoperative results at mid-term follow-up periods along with the data of the control group. Secondly, to evaluate the effectiveness among open-discectomy and microdiscectomy surgical groups. In the present study, we investigated a cohort of 100 patients with the lumbar disc herniation causing low back pain compared to 100 subjects of the control group with the non-specific low back pain by applying physical activity, pain scale, Short Form 36 General Health Questionnaire and additional postoperative records of patient's satisfaction and complications level, consumption of analgesics, and return to work status. The quantitative analysis of all questionnaires showed substantial differences in the preoperative and postoperative groups. The best results were achieved at the second year follow-up period. However, there were no statistically significant differences in both the examined surgical subgroups (p > 0.05). In addition, we estimated from moderate to great statistical significance (p < 0.01-0.05) among preoperative and overall postoperative results: PHC and MHC in the SF-36, Oswestry and VAS. The total increased satisfaction, reherniation rate and return to work frequency comprised 40, 9 and 64%, respectively. The analgesics were still indicated for 21% of the patients. The results of the present study suggest of sufficient decompression in both surgical groups, as the health-related quality of life parameters (Oswestry, VAS and SF-36) were defined as clinically improved. Regardless of persisted minor pain in both areas, it remained greater in the low back than in the leg, which should be held for beneficial to decompressive surgery.
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