30 patients with discoplasty of the lumbar spine · Patients were asked about how much better or worse they felt in range 0 to 100 MacNab criteria: Excellent •No pain, no movement

30 patients with discoplasty of the lumbar spine

Outcome (MacNab): Excellent

Reduction of Disc Size: 63,02%

preoperatively 12 mo post-operatively


Outcome (MacNab): Good




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Included were patients that had:

• Pre- and post- operative MRI

• Completed Oswestry and VAS questionnaires

• Been operated at least 12 months ago

30 patients were included

21 males and 7 females

Mean age was 42,52 years (range: 20 to 69 years)

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VAS-lumbar: -58,18%

VAS-extreme: -65,66%

Oswestry: -49,51%

Patients were asked about how much better or worse they felt in range 0 to 100

MacNab criteria:

• No pain, no movement difficulty Excellent

• Occasional pain (but no radicular) Good

• Minor improvement, but with minor daily impairment Fair

• No improvement, operative treatment is necessary Poor

Excellent: 18

Good: 7

Fair: 2

Poor: 3

In the following pages, pictures of cases with pre- and 12 month post- operative MRIs is presented. Whenever there is an intermediate MRI available, it will be presented separately

On the top right box, MacNab criteria and the percent of the intervertebral disc reduction is presented.

Editors

• Nikolaos D. Benardos Orthopaedic – Spine Surgeon

• Evangelos M. Rokas Neurosurgeon

Acknowledgements

Current study was performed under the supervision of the

Professor of Orthpaedics and Spine Surgeon

Alexandros Hadjipavlou

Documents

30 patients with discoplasty of the lumbar spine · Patients were asked about how much better or worse they felt in range 0 to 100 MacNab criteria: Excellent •No pain, no movement