| Autor: |
Shetty, Sanath Kumar, Ballal, Arjun, Mathias, Lawrence John, Rai, H. Ravindranath |
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Nitte University Journal of Health Science; Dec2015, Vol. 5 Issue 4, p62-65, 4p |
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Background: Back pain is considered as one of the most unrewarding problems in clinical medicine. There have existed several etiologies for the same andmost of themdo not have an ideal clinical presentation. Only those syndromes associatedwith neurologic compression of the cauda equina or nerve roots, have reasonablywell understood clinical presentation. Aims: The aim of the study was to analyse and compare the functional outcome of laminectomy and discectomy in lumbar intervertebral disc prolapse in short and long termfollowup. Materials and methods: Our study included a total of 50 diagnosed cases of lumbar intervertebral disc prolapse between age group of 40-70 years. The patients were subdivided into two groups. The first group was a retrospective group and included patients who had undergone laminectomy and discectomy between January 1993 and December 2003 with an average follow up of 3.68 years. Group two (prospective group) consisted of patients between January 2004 and December 2004 who underwent laminectomy and discectomy, with a followup of 6months. The subjective assessment was done using the Oswestry disability index (O.D.I). the results obtained with assessment of group I and group IIwere tabulated compared. Statistical analysiswas done using the chi square test. Results: The resultswere noted to be 76%excellent, 8%good and 16%with poor scores in group I. 96%with excellent, no patientswith good scores and 4%with poor scores in group II as per theO.D.I. Conclusion: We conclude saying that laminectomy and discectomy had excellent outcome in terms of pain relief in terms of long term and short termfollowup. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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