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Analysis of whether Endoscopic Discectomy is the Next Gold Standard in the Management of Lumbar Disc Disease? Systematic Review and Superiority Analysis
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Why is it important?
We performed this meta-analysis to evaluate whether endoscopic discectomy (ED) shows superiority compared with the current gold standard of microdiscectomy (MD) in management of lumbar disc disease.
Perspectives
Our meta-analysis established the superiority of endoscopic discectomy in outcome measures like ODI score, duration of surgery, overall complications, length of hospital stay and noninferiority in other measures analyzed. With recent advances in the field of ED, the procedure has the potential to take over the place of MD as the gold standard of care in management of lumbar disc disease.
Dr Sathish Muthu
Government Hospital, Velayuthampalayam, Karur, TN, India.
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This page is a summary of: Is Endoscopic Discectomy the Next Gold Standard in the Management of Lumbar Disc Disease? Systematic Review and Superiority Analysis, Global Spine Journal, September 2020, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2192568220948814.
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