ArticleOpen access Macedonian journal of medical sciences2019
Comparison between Results of Microdiscectomy and Open Discectomy in Management of High-Level Lumbar Disc Prolapse.
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- Comparative efficacy and safety of three surgical procedures for the treatment of lumbar disc herniation: a Bayesian-based network analysis.BMC surgery · 2025Pooled it
- A 2-Year Outcomes and Complications of Various Techniques of Lumbar Discectomy: A Multicentric Prospective Study.Global spine journal · 2025Article
- Analysis of factors affecting the clinical management of infection in culture-negative patients following percutaneous endoscopic decompression: a retrospective study.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
- Unilateral biportal endoscopy via two different approaches for upper lumbar disc herniation: a technical note.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Article
- Risk factors for surgical site infection after percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy.International wound journal · 2024Article
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- Surgical outcomes of percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy in obese adolescents with lumbar disc herniation.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
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Abstract
aimThis work aims to compare between results of microdiscectomy and open discectomy in management of high-level lumbar disc prolapse.
methodsThis is a controlled randomised study, where patients having upper lumbar disc herniations were evaluated preoperatively both clinically and radiologically, randomisation was planned to perform open discectomy in odd number patients and to perform microdiscectomy in even number patients, patients were evaluated and followed up for deficits and outcomes.
resultsWe operated ten patients in this study, five cases were operated upon with microdiscectomy, and five cases were operated upon with open discectomy, the median age of presentation in this study was 44 years, there were five males and five females, postoperative pain improvement was better in microdiscectomy. Hospital stay, blood loss, bone loss and postoperative complications were less in microdiscectomy.
conclusionMicrodiscectomy allows good surgical visualisation and is less traumatic to the involved tissues. The results of this study indicated that microsurgery reduces hospitalisation time, improves the overall surgery-related outcome. The main differences between the two procedures were the length of the incision and blood loss. We found that lumbar microdiscectomy allows patients earlier return to work and normal life with less reliance on postoperative narcotic analgesic agents.
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