Two-year outcome after lumbar microdiscectomy versus microscopic sequestrectomy - Part 2: Radiographic evaluation and correlation with clinical outcome

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 273-279

  Barth, Martin ^a   Diepers, Michael ^a   Weiss, Christel ^a   Thomé, Claudius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disc degeneration; Disc herniation; Lumbar spine; Magnetic resonance imaging; Microdiscectomy; Prospective randomized study; Sequestrectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; ISCHIALGIA; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICRODISCECTOMY; MICROSCOPIC SEQUESTRECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40049109987     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31816201a6     Document Type: Article

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