Journal article
Herniated Thoracic Disks: Treatment and Outcome
Journal of spinal disorders, Vol.6(3), pp.218-224
06/1993
DOI: 10.1097/00002517-199306030-00006
PMID: 8347971
Abstract
The optimal surgical approach for thoracic disk herniation is controversial, and long-term follow-up is poorly documented. We retrospectively reviewed the records of 31 patients who underwent surgery for herniated thoracic disks at our institution during a 17-year period (1975-1992). Two patients had multiple disk herniations; 16 of 33 herniated disks occurred at or below the T10-11 level. There were three surgical approaches to diskectomy: laminectomy in four patients, transpedicular surgery in 12, and costotransversectomy in 15. Weakness resolved postsurgery in nine of 18 patients. One patient transiently deteriorated neurologically after a laminectomy, three had wound infections, and two required second operations for their herniated disks. Postsurgery half the patients with symptoms continued to have pain or weakness.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Herniated Thoracic Disks: Treatment and Outcome
- Creators
- Todd R RidenourSouheil F HaddadPatrick W HitchonJohn PiperVincent C TraynelisJohn C VanGilder
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of spinal disorders, Vol.6(3), pp.218-224
- DOI
- 10.1097/00002517-199306030-00006
- PMID
- 8347971
- ISSN
- 0895-0385
- eISSN
- 1531-2305
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/1993
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Neurosurgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984040358202771
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