Timing and minimal access surgery for sciatica: A summary of two randomized trials

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 967-974

  Arts, Mark P ^a   Peul, Wilco C ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; ISCHIALGIA; LEARNING CURVE; LEG PAIN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISC SURGERY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TIME;

DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; SCIATICA; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 79955929147     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-011-0983-8     Document Type: Editorial

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