Preserving the ligamentum flavum in lumbar discectomy: A new technique that prevents scar tissue formation in the first 6 months postsurgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Ozer, Ali F ^a   Oktenoglu, Tunc ^a   Sasani, Mehdi ^a   Bozkus, Hakan ^a   Canbulat, Nazan ^a   Karaarslan, Ercan ^a   Sungurlu, Suleyman F ^b   Sarioglu, Ali C ^a  

^a AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b HAYDARPASA NUMUNE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ligamentum flavum; Microlumbar discectomy; Postoperative fibrosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR DISK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANK SUM TEST; RATING SCALE; SCAR FORMATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADHESIONS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; CICATRIX; DISKECTOMY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LAMINECTOMY; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33745769792     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000220078.90175.E6     Document Type: Article

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