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The International Journal of Spine Surgery has announced that specific International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) codes have been granted for lumbar discogenic pain associated with degenerative disc disease. This development allows for more precise dia...
Section II describes the differential diagnosis of common lowback pain syndromes. WORKUP In most cases, the diagnosis can be established on a clinical basis alone. IMAGING STUDIES • Plain roentgenograms may be indicated within the first few weeks; they are usually normal in soft disk herniati...
(NOMESCO version 1.15, ABC07, ABC16 & ABC26)38; this analysis included 7347 cases and controls of 270 964. LDH cases that had not been operated were excluded from the analysis. The same was done for operated cases that didn’t have a LDH diagnosis, as these patients were probably ...
(n = 18). At 2 years after surgery the ODI value improved by 57.8 %. To the question concerning their willingness to undergo, with acquired experience, surgery for the same diagnosis, 21 patients (91.3 %) gave an affirmative answer. Neither screw breakage nor neurovascular damage or rectal ...
First, we used national insurance claim data which can have fail to include prescriptions outside of insurance coverage (though this is less than 1% in South Korea), included possible incorrect diagnosis codes, and misclassification errors. But, due to the large-sample population, we believe such...
A cut-off score of 12 corresponds to an interview-based diagnosis of a depressive episode according to ICD-10 criteria [24, 25]. Fear of movement and (re)injury was assessed using the 11-item German Version of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK-GV) [26]. The TSK-GV is composed ...
The Tohoku Society of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis has developed a self-administered diagnostic support tool that enables diagnosis by only history taking and can predict the type of neurological disorder. The questionnaire, which consists of 10 questions, assesses LSS by the combination of applicable items...
Variations over time were displayed graphically.#A total of 83,783 unique patients with an LSS diagnosis were identified, and of these, 38,362 (46%) underwent decompression surgery. Compared to those who did not receive surgery, the surgically treated patients were more likely to be aged 65–...
METHODS Frail patients were identified using ICD-9 codes, ICD-10 codes, and the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups frailty-defining diagnosis indicator. We used propensity score matching to obtain a group of 22,624 non-frail, one-to-one age and sex matched, control patients from the ...