OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of patients' bod mass index (BMI) on surgical outcomes following one-level lumbar microdiscectomy. METHODS From June 2003 to March 2007, 129 patients underwent one-level lumbar microdiscectomy performed at a single institution. We divided the patients into 3 groups, depending on BMI. A retrospective study was conducted among the 3...

The aim of this study is to compare patients undergoing one level anterior cervical discectomy without fusion versus anterior cervical discectomy with fusion. The study included forty-eight patients operated at either C5-C6 level or at the C6-C7 level: a group of anterior cervical microdiscectomy without fusion performed at one level on 24 consecutive patients was matched to a second group of 2...

OBJECTIVE This retrospective study aimed to compare clinical outcomes in terms of pain relief and recurrence rate between fragmentectomies and conventional microdiscectomies in patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH). METHODS Between January 2008 and May 2011, a total of 175 patients met the inclusion criteria of this study. The visual analogue scale (VAS) scores of back and radicular pain...

BACKGROUND The observed rate of recurrent disc herniation after limited posterior lumbar discectomy is highest in patients with posterior wide annular defects, according to the Carragee classification of type II (fragment-defect) disc hernia. Although the recurrent herniation rate is lower in both type III (fragment-contained) and type IV (no fragment-contained) patients, recurrent persistent s...

AIM The aim of this randomized study was to compare exercise program to control group regarding pain, back disability, behavioural outcomes, global health measures and back mobility who underwent microdiscectomy operation. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty patients who underwent lumbar microdiscectomy were randomized into exercıse and control groups. After surgery, patients in the exercıse group un...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of anti-adhesion barrier agents following lumbar microdiscectomy. METHODS Healon GV or Adcon-L was applied to a laminectomy defect overlying the duramater in 60 patients assigned to 3 randomized groups: Group I - Adcon-L (n=21), Group II - Healon GV (n=21), and Group III - control group, no adhesion barrier used (n=18). We conducted this study between 2004 a...

STUDY DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare pregabalin and gabapentin for mean postoperative visual analog score (VAS) for pain in patients undergoing single-level lumbar microdiscectomy for intervertebral disc prolapse at a tertiary care hospital. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Pregabalin has a superior pharmacokinetic profile and analgesic effect at ...

OBJECTIVE A comparative analysis of the efficacy of baclosan in adjuvant therapy of muscular-tonic pain syndromes in the early postoperative period after microdiscectomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred and three patients (65 men and 38 women, mean age 42±5,0 years) were divided into two sex- and age-matched groups depending on the treatment. Patients of group 1 received baclosan in the comb...

Percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy (PTED) is a minimally invasive technique to treat lumbar disk herniation from a lateral approach. Performed under local anesthesia, the incision size for PTED is around 8 mm with no paraspinal muscle cutting or detachment from their insertion. PTED has been associated with less blood loss, faster rehabilitation, and less scarring of tissue than ...