An article published in Spine examines the three-year outcomes for patients who underwent microendoscopic posterior decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis.
The researchers examined 105 patients who underwent microendoscopy-assisted MILD and found:
• Operative time was 99.3 minutes on average
• Intraoperative bleeding was 15.7 mL on average
• VAS scores assessing surgical site pain was 20.6 mm on day one postoperatively
• Average serum creatine kinase on postoperative day one was 145.4 IU/L
• C-reactive protein on postoperative day three was 2.7 mg/dL
• TW cases had surgical complication
• Average reduction rate of the facet joint was 3 percent
• Revision procedures were performed in eight cases
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