Our objective was to assess the clinical outcome of interlaminar discectomy in patients suffering with degenerated lumbar disc lesions. We made a prospective study of 50 consecutive patients who underwent limited lumbar discectomy. The clinico-radiological parameters, type of surgery performed and the post-operative follow up were assessed. We found that interlaminar discectomy without laminoto...

Using data obtained by questionnaire in a retrospective review of pat sciatic pain (eighty-five treated i ents with low-back by injection of chy and ‘rnopapain and seventy-one, by open discectomy), the results at one and ten years after treatment were analyzed. For this analysis we used six measures of pain relief, six measures of the patients’ course during the ten-year period since primary tr...

Background: Lumber disc prolapse accounts for only 5% of all low back pain problems but is the most common cause of radiating nerve root pain which called sciatica. In the 20th century, techniques were developed to remove the herniated disc with minimal invasiveness, with these minimally invasive techniques; authors demonstrated decreased soft tissue manipulation, operative time, blood loss, an...

Adjacent level cervical disc disease and secondarily progressive disc space degeneration that develops years after previously successful anterior cervical fusion at one or more levels is a common, but potentially complex problem to manage. The patient is faced with the option of further open surgery which involves adding another level of disc removal with fusion, posterior decompression, and st...

This study investigated the therapeutic effect of percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy on lumbar disc herniation, and explored its effect on oxidative stress in patients with lumbar disc herniation. One hundred and ten patients with lumbar disc herniation were selected in The Affiliated People's Hospital of Shanxi Medical University from May 2015 to May 2016. Patients were divided into con...

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Background The standard treatment for cervical disc herniation is open discectomy surgery but some of techniques, such as nucleoplasty were applied by neurosurgeons in recent decade. The aim of this study was to compare the postoperation results of open discectomy and nucleoplasty methods in people suffering from single cervical disc herniation. Materials and Methods In a clinical trial study...

PURPOSE To assess the treatment outcome for disc infection in 35 patients. METHODS Records of 23 men and 12 women aged 36 to 62 (mean, 43) years who underwent treatment for pyogenic discitis after open discectomy were reviewed. All patients had single-level disc herniation of L4-5 (n=28) or L5-S1 (n=6), except for one who had 2-level disc herniation of L4-S1. Single antibiotic was given one d...