Microdiscectomy.
Despite the introduction of microdiscectomy some fifteen years ago, the spread of this procedure amongst surgeons who operate on discs has been disappointingly slow. The overall impression of the impact which this operation has made on the surgery of lumbar discs is considerable and the authors recommend that this should now be the standard operation for disc sciatica, especially as the operation can now be performed as an outpatient procedure.
Griffith
H B
HB
Frenchay Hospital, Bristol.
Mathew
B G
BG
D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery*; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation