Clinical follow up after instrumentation-augmented lumbar spinal surgery in patients with unsatisfactory outcomes.

2006 
Object. The authors investigated the causes of unsatisfactory outcomes in patients who had undergone instrumentation-assisted lumbar surgery and followed the clinical and imaging results of the revision surgery. Methods. Myelography and postmyelography computed tomography (CT) scanning were successfully conducted in 103 patients. In nearly 80% of these patients, the main symptom was back pain, with or without leg pain. Additional electromyography and nerve conduction velocity studies were also conducted in 22 patients in whom CT myelography could not help to establish the definitive cause of surgical failure. There were 26 cases of spinal stenosis, 13 of adjacent-segment instability, 15 of pseudarthrosis, 11 of screw misplacement, four of epidural fibrosis, five of arachnoiditis, seven of disc disruption, and 22 miscellaneous. When conservative treatment failed to relieve symptoms, surgery was suggested whenever an operable lesion was found. Revision surgery was performed in 48 patients, and these cases f...
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