Timing of Surgery in Tubular Microdiscectomy for Lumbar Disc Herniation and Its Effect on Functional Impairment Outcomes

Objective While it has been established that surgery for lumbar disc herniation, excluding emergent indications, should only be performed after weeks of conservative treatment, it has also been established that late surgery is associated with poorer outscomes in terms of leg pain. However, nothing i...

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Main Authors: Alessandro Siccoli, Marlies P. de Wispelaere, Marc L. Schröder, Victor E. Staartjes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society 2020-03-01
Series:Neurospine
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Online Access:http://www.e-neurospine.org/upload/pdf/ns-1938448-224.pdf