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The results of "lumbar disc surgery" following unsuccessful chemonucleolysis
M Brock1, L Pedretti, H M Mayer
1Department of Neurosurgery, Free University of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.
Acta Neurochirurgica
|January 11, 1991
Abstract:
A group of 100 patients submitted to microsurgical treatment for herniated lumbar disc following unsuccessful chemonucleolysis with chymopapain were retrospectively compared to a statistically comparable group of patients primarily submitted to microsurgery. This comparison demonstrated that previous unsuccessful chemonucleolysis has no influence on either the short-term or the long-term results of subsequent microsurgery.