Clinical and radiological results of lumbar microdiskectomy technique with preserving of ligamentum flavum comparing to the standard microdiskectomy technique

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-13

  Aydn, Yunus ^a   Ziyal, Ibrahim M ^b,d   Duman, Hüdayi ^a   Türkmen, Cengiz S ^c   Başak, Muzaffer ^a   Ahin, Yüksel ^a  

^a SISLI ETFAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Istanbul Phys Med and Rehab Ctr   (Turkey)

^d NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epidural fibrosis; Ligamentum flavum sparing; Microdiskectomy; Microlumbar diskectomy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISKITIS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INJURY; INSTRUMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; DISKECTOMY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LIGAMENTS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MYELOFIBROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION;

EID: 0036173509     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(01)00677-2     Document Type: Article

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