Low back pain.(Clinical Capsules)

Publication: Journal of Controversial Medical Claims

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Outcomes in primary lumbar microscopic disc surgery depend on the surgeon's expertise, researchers in Germany find. Studies concerning intraoperative complications and their influence on the clinical outcome of microscopic disc surgery are quite rare, and complication rates vary between 1.5 percent and 15.8 percent. A correlation between the surgeon's experience and the complication rate may be expected, the researchers say. To determine the influence of the surgeon's experience on the intraoperative complication rate in lumbar microscopic disc surgery, the researchers looked at three studies: 1) retrospective analysis of intraoperative complications in microscopic disc surgery (N = 1,872); 2) prospective follow-up study of microscopic disc surgery (N = 583); and 3) prospective evaluation of...

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