A 65-year-old man presented to the ED with 1 day of acute onset mid-thoracic and low back pain, difficulty ambulating and ...

and statistically significant improvement in clinical outcome compared to decompressive lumbar laminectomy alone (one RCT). Arguments for the choice of fusion with instrumentation were an ...

Lumbar herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP ... Postoperative care differs for microdiscectomy and decompressive laminectomy because the surgical pathology and interventions are different.

Multilevel decompression exhibited comparable postoperative outcomes with that of single-level decompression in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.