Double Consecutive Lumbar Discectomy: Is Fixation a Rule?
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Is prophylactic lumbar discectomy ever indicated?
375 With the wide availability of non-invasive imaging techniques, the occurrence of a patient with a large disc herniation who ultimately has complete disappearance of the herniation on imaging without surgery is not rare.1-4 It is unclear how common this is, as most patients who recover from sciatica do not get repeat imaging. Alternatively, how commonly cauda equina syndrome subsequently occ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Medical Journal of Cairo University
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2536-9806
DOI: 10.21608/mjcu.2019.89770