NEW YORK — Six-year outcomes of a randomized trial in Finland showed that patients with sciatica who received a lumbar microdiscectomy experienced significantly less pain and disability than patients ...

Degeneration Similar With, Without Disc Prosthesis Surgery Patients undergoing inpatient lumbar discectomy have significantly higher overall complication rates than those treated as outpatients.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PHILADELPHIA — Incidental durotomy, the accidental breach of the dural covering of the spinal cord and nerve ...

Review Compares Surgeries for Sciatica Due to Herniated Disc The presence of retrolisthesis in patients undergoing decompressive surgery for a lumbar disc herniation may result in significantly worse ...

Herniation may occur anywhere along the spine but most commonly in the lumbar region, usually between the fifth lumbar and first sacral vertebrae (L5-S1). The usual cause is degeneration of the ...

Introduction: Full-endoscopic lumbar discectomy (ELD) can be performed using either the transforaminal (TELD) or interlaminar (IELD) approach. Although both techniques are widely used, the optimal ...

This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the Committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...

Introduction: The unilateral biportal endoscopy (UBE) technique has demonstrated favorable outcomes in lumbar discectomy and decompressive laminectomy. IntraSPINE is an innovative interlaminar dynamic ...