Report of a controlled clinical trial comparing automated percutaneous lumbar discectomy and microdiscectomy in the treatment of contained lumbar disc herniation

Spine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 734-738

  Findlay, Gordon F ^a   Chatterjee, Sandip ^a   Foy, Patrick M ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated percutaneous lumbar discectomy; Microdiscectomy; Randomized trial sciatica

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; ISCHIALGIA; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DISKECTOMY; DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; SCIATICA;

EID: 0028967105     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199503150-00016     Document Type: Article

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