Comparison of results of 500 microdiscectomies and 500 percutaneous laser disc decompression procedures for lumbar disc herniation

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 694-697

  Tassi, Gian Paolo ^a  

^a Casa di Cura Villa Anna ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER SURGERY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HERNIATED DISCS; LASER DISC DECOMPRESSION; LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION; MICRODISCECTOMY;

NEUROSURGERY;

CEFUROXIME; DIAZEPAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LASER SURGERY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICRODISCECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PERCUTANEOUS LASER DISC DECOMPRESSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846208782     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2006.24.694     Document Type: Article

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