A New Surgical Procedure for Lumbar Disc Herniation Causing Less Tissue Damage Through a Microsurgical Approach

Caspar, W.

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“…16,35,38,51 Authors performing the MED technique have purported better visualization with the endoscope, facilitating enhanced identification and manipulation of anatomical structures such as the nerve root and dural sac. 7,8,51 These conclusions suggest that fewer complications should be observed when using MED relative to the conventional open technique. This, however, was not the case in our review.…”

Section: Open Microdiscectomy and Medmentioning

confidence: 85%

Lumbar microdiscectomy complication rates: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Shriver¹,

Xie

Tye³

et al. 2015

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OBJECT Lumbar microdiscectomy and its various minimally invasive surgical techniques are seeing increasing popularity, but a systematic review of their associated complications has yet to be performed. The authors sought to identify all prospective clinical studies reporting complications associated with lumbar open microdiscectomy, microendoscopic discectomy (MED), and percutaneous microdiscectomy. METHODS The authors conducted MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, and Embase database searches for randomized controlled trials and prospective cohort studies reporting complications associated with open, microendoscopic, or percutaneous lumbar microdiscectomy. Studies with fewer than 10 patients and published before 1990 were excluded. Overall and interstudy median complication rates were calculated for each surgical technique. The authors also performed a meta-analysis of the reported complications to assess statistical significance across the various surgical techniques. RESULTS Of 9504 articles retrieved from the databases, 42 met inclusion criteria. Most studies screened were retrospective case series, limiting the number of studies that could be included. A total of 9 complication types were identified in the included studies, and these were analyzed across each of the surgical techniques. The rates of any complication across the included studies were 12.5%, 13.3%, and 10.8% for open, MED, and percutaneous microdiscectomy, respectively. New or worsening neurological deficit arose in 1.3%, 3.0%, and 1.6% of patients, while direct nerve root injury occurred at rates of 2.6%, 0.9%, and 1.1%, respectively. Hematoma was reported at rates of 0.5%, 1.2%, and 0.6%, respectively. Wound complications (infection, dehiscence, orseroma) occurred at rates of 2.1%, 1.2%, and 0.5%, respectively. The rates of recurrent disc complications were 4.4%, 3.1%, and 3.9%, while reoperation was indicated in 7.1%, 3.7%, and 10.2% of operations, respectively. Meta-analysis calculations revealed a statistically significant higher rate of intraoperative nerve root injury following percutaneous procedures relative to MED. No other significant differences were found. CONCLUSIONS This review highlights complication rates among various microdiscectomy techniques, which likely reflect real-world practice and conceptualization of complications among physicians. This investigation sets the framework for further discussions regarding microdiscectomy options and their associated complications during the informed consent process.

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Section: Open Microdiscectomy and Medmentioning

confidence: 85%

Lumbar microdiscectomy complication rates: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Shriver¹,

Xie

Tye³

et al. 2015

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127

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“…The two operative techniques standard microscopic technique and MAPN technique were described in detail elsewhere [6,13,40].…”

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Comparison of a minimally invasive procedure versus standard microscopic discotomy: a prospective randomised controlled clinical trial

Franke

Greiner-Perth²,

Boehm

et al. 2009

Eur Spine J

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A Prospective randomised controlled study was done to determine statistical difference between the standard microsurgical discotomy (MC) and a minimally invasive microscopic procedure for disc prolapse surgery by comparing operation duration and clinical outcome. Additionally, the transferability of the results was determined by a bicentric design. The microscopic assisted percutaneous nucleotomy (MAPN) has been advocated as a minimally invasive tubular technique. Proponents have claimed that minimally invasive procedures reduce postoperative pain and accelerate the recovery. In addition, there exist only a limited number of well-designed comparison studies comparing standard microdiscotomy to a tubular minimally invasive technique that support this claim. Furthermore, there are no well-designed studies looking at the transferability of those results and possible learning curve phenomena. We studied 100 patients, who were planned for disc prolapse surgery at two centres [50 patients at the developing centre (index) and 50 patients at the less experienced (transfer) centre]. The randomisation was done separately for each centre, employing a blockrandomisation procedure with respect to age and preoperative Oswestry score. Operation duration was chosen as a primary outcome parameter as there was a distinguished shortening observed in a preliminary study at the index centre enabling a sound case number estimation. The following data were compared between the two groups and the centres with a 12-month follow-up: surgical times (operation duration and approach duration), the clinical results, leg and back pain by visual analogue scale, the Oswestry disability index, length of hospital stay, return to work time, and complications. The operation duration was statistically identical for MC (57.8 ± 20.2 min) at the index centre and for MAPN (50.3 ± 18.3 min) and MC (54.7 ± 18.1 min) at the transfer centre. The operation duration was only significantly shorter for the MAPN technique at the index centre with 33.3 min (SD 12.1 min). There was a huge clinical improvement for all patients regardless of centre or method revealed by a repeated measures ANOVA for all follow-up visits Separate post hoc ANOVAs for each centre revealed that there was a significant time-method (MAPN vs. MC) interaction at the index centre (F = 3.75, P = 0.006), whereas this crucial interaction was not present at the transfer centre (F = 0.5, P = 0.7). These results suggest a slightly faster clinical recovery for the MAPN patients only at the index centre. This was due to a greater reduction in VAS score for back pain at discharge, 8-week and 6-month follow up (P \ 0.002). The Oswestry-disability scores reached a significant improvement compared to the initial values extending over the complete follow-up at both centres for J. Franke and R. Greiner-Perth contributed equally to this work. both methods without revealing any differences for the two methods in either centre. There was no difference regarding complications. The results demonstrate...

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“…This procedure requires a median longitudinal skin incision, detachment of the paravertebral muscles from the spine and partial laminectomy. Advances in microdiscectomy [5] procedures have led to improved methods which are now widely used for the surgical treatment of lumbar disc herniation [1,6,20]. The MED system was introduced by Foley in 1997 [11] and has been used for resection of prolapsed and laterally herniated discs.…”

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Objective assessment of reduced invasiveness in MED

et al. 2005

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Microendoscopic discectomy (MED) has been accepted as a minimally invasive procedure for lumbar discectomy because of the small skin incision and short hospital stay required for this surgery. However, there are few objective laboratory data to confirm the reduced systemic responses in the early phase after this procedure. In order to substantiate the reduced invasiveness of MED compared to microdiscectomy (MD) or procedures involved in one-level unilateral laminotomy, the invasiveness of each surgical procedure was evaluated by measuring serum levels of biochemical parameters reflective of a postoperative inflammatory reaction and damage to the paravertebral muscles. Thirty-three patients who underwent lumbar discectomy or one-level unilateral laminotomy (MED in 15 cases, MD in 11 cases and one-level unilateral laminotomy in 7 cases with lumbar spinal canal stenosis) were included in this study. The serum levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and creatine phosphokinase (CPK) were measured at 24 h after operation. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and Interleukin-10 (IL-10) were measured at 2, 4, 8 and )24 h following the surgery to monitor the inflammatory response to the respective surgery. The post-operative serum CRP levels from both the MD and MED groups were significantly lower than those from the open laminotomy group. However, there was no significant difference in these serum levels between the MED and MD groups. The levels of IL-6 and IL-10 in the MED group during0 the first post-operative day were also significantly lower than those in the laminotomy group. When the MED and MD groups were compared, the IL-6 levels in the MED group were lower than in MD group at 2, 4 and 8 h after surgery, but the differences were not statistically significant. However, the level was significantly lower in the MED group at 24 h after surgery. In terms of IL-10, no significant difference was noted between the MED and MD groups over the study period. The changes in serum levels of postoperative inflammatory: markers (CRP, IL-6 and IL-10) in the early phase indicated reduced inflammatory reactions in MED as well as in MD when compared with classical open unilateral laminotomy. These data draw a direct link between the lower level of the inflammatory response and reduced invasiveness of MED. However, an indicator for muscle damage (CPK) appeared not to be affected by the type of surgical procedure used to correct disc herniation.Keywords Microendoscopic discectomy AE Microdiscectomy AE Lumbar disc herniation AE Minimally invasive surgery Eur Spine J (2006) 15: 577-582

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A New Surgical Procedure for Lumbar Disc Herniation Causing Less Tissue Damage Through a Microsurgical Approach

Cited by 336 publications

References 5 publications

Lumbar microdiscectomy complication rates: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Lumbar microdiscectomy complication rates: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Comparison of a minimally invasive procedure versus standard microscopic discotomy: a prospective randomised controlled clinical trial

Objective assessment of reduced invasiveness in MED

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