title: Failed lumbar spinal surgery.
abstract: Failures and poor results of 160 patients after lumbar spinal surgery between 1980 and 1984 were analysed retrospectively. A self-rated questionnaire carried out 12 months after operation revealed 20 poor results; these occurred most commonly after multiple operations, decompression and fusion as compared to disc excision. The commonest cause was failure to recognise abnormal pain behaviour before operation. A more careful preoperative assessment should reduce the incidence of failure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Doncaster Royal Infirmary, England.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dhar
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Porter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery; D013123:Spinal Fusion; D013130:Spinal Stenosis / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome