Lumbar Disc Herniations 'To Operate or Not' Patient Selection and Timing of Surgery

At times lumbar disc herniations present a quandary to the spine surgeon in regards to the most appropriate intervention and a need to optimize medical and surgical therapies. We discuss a case of ours and our experience in treating this common spinal pathology, along with a commentary on the articl...

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Autores principales: Rahmathulla, Gazanfar, Kamian, Kambiz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society 2014
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Letter to Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25620990
http://dx.doi.org/10.14245/kjs.2014.11.4.255
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description At times lumbar disc herniations present a quandary to the spine surgeon in regards to the most appropriate intervention and a need to optimize medical and surgical therapies. We discuss a case of ours and our experience in treating this common spinal pathology, along with a commentary on the article published by Kim et al. entitled 'Spontaneous regression of extruded lumbar disc herniation: three cases report in Korean J Spine. 2013 Jun;10(2):78-81.'
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spelling pubmed-43032832015-01-23 Lumbar Disc Herniations 'To Operate or Not' Patient Selection and Timing of Surgery Rahmathulla, Gazanfar Kamian, Kambiz Korean J Spine Letter to Editor At times lumbar disc herniations present a quandary to the spine surgeon in regards to the most appropriate intervention and a need to optimize medical and surgical therapies. We discuss a case of ours and our experience in treating this common spinal pathology, along with a commentary on the article published by Kim et al. entitled 'Spontaneous regression of extruded lumbar disc herniation: three cases report in Korean J Spine. 2013 Jun;10(2):78-81.' The Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society 2014-12 2014-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4303283/ /pubmed/25620990 http://dx.doi.org/10.14245/kjs.2014.11.4.255 Text en Copyright © 2014 The Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Lumbar Disc Herniations 'To Operate or Not' Patient Selection and Timing of Surgery
title_full_unstemmed Lumbar Disc Herniations 'To Operate or Not' Patient Selection and Timing of Surgery
title_short Lumbar Disc Herniations 'To Operate or Not' Patient Selection and Timing of Surgery
title_sort lumbar disc herniations 'to operate or not' patient selection and timing of surgery
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303283/
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