surgery,the patient recovered from his deficit(tibialis anterior improved from 0/5 to 4/5).Therefore,we discuss the possible pathological mechanism and surgical option for the foot drop due to the lumbar degenerative disease as well as the potential risk factors portending prognosis postoperatively....
The translaminar approach is usually applied at either the L3-L4 or the L4-L5 level, because the lamina at L1 or L2 may be too thin to make an oval hole to preserve the pars interarticularis and the disc level at the L5-S1 level is usually too caudal for this approach. For the ...
F, Panoramic oral radiogram demonstrating 15 months after the surgery to close the window Full size image Case 2 A 9-year-old female patient was diagnosed with a painless mass in the right mandible for 1 year. The patient was required to undergo a tonsillectomy 1 year ago, and a right ...
tained lumbar disc herniations, L3 to S1. The average pe- riod from symptom onset to index surgery was 10.9 months. During the same period, 627 additional patients, not part of this study, underwent posterolateral lumbar endoscopic sur- gery for various other diagnoses. The general patient in...
Level of surgery was L2–3 in 18 discs; L3-4 in 108 discs; L4-5 in 181 discs; and L5-S1 in 12 discs. There were no persistent complications during or after the surgeries. The average JOA score improved 12.6 ± 4.3 points before surgery to 24.3 ± 3.6 points at the fin...
The objective of this study was to radiographically evaluate the lumbar fusion rate and degenerative changes of adjacent levels of patients aged 60 years and older at the time of surgery. METHODS: Beginning January 1997, there are 52 consecutive patients aged 60 years and older who have ...
Xu Baoshan,Ma Xinlong,Hu Yongcheng,Xu Haiwei,Liu Yue,Yang Qiang,Jiang Hongfeng,Ji Ning,Department of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery,Tianjin Hospital,,.Bilateral decompression via unilateral fenestration and interbody fusion for complex lumbar spinal stenosis with mobile microendoscopic discectomy ...
Eight patients (9.2%) required additional surgery to add posterior instrumentation within 24 months for lack of fusion, 2 of the 8 patients also had concomitant interbody fusion. Adverse events potentially attributable to ICBG harvest included: anaemia (13 patients, 14.9%) and donor site ...
Retrospective analysis of the surgical and clinical outcomes for 127 patients (average age, 42.2 ± 15.2 years) who underwent SELD for LDH at L2-3, L3-4, L4-5, and/or L5-S1, performed by a single experienced spine surgeon at a single center, between January 2015 and April ...
CT‐guided epidural nerve block have shown the benefits of this novel approach, offering significant immediate pain relief in the post‐procedural phase, favorable outcomes in the short to mid‐term and a significantly reduced rate of re‐surgery (7%) compared with the use of only CT‐guided ...