Improved outcome after lumbar microdiscectomy in patients shown their excised disc fragments: A prospective, double blind, randomised, controlled trial

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1044-1046

  Tait, M J ^a   Levy, J ^a   Nowell, M ^a   Pocock, C ^a   Petrik, V ^a   Bell, B A ^a   Papadopoulos, M C ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISKITIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR MICRODISCECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BACKACHE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; ISCHIALGIA; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WALKING;

ADULT; BACK PAIN; DISKECTOMY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SCIATICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 69449092881     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.156356     Document Type: Article

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