Lumbar spinal stenosis - surgical outcome and the odds of revision-surgery: Is it all due to the surgeon?

CONCLUSIONS: While looking for predictors of revision surgery due to re-stenosis, instability or same/adjacent segment disease none of these were found. Within our cohort no significant differences concerning demographic, peri-operative and radiographic data of patients with or without revision wer noted. Patients, who needed revision surgery were older but slightly healthier while more likely to be male and smoking. Surprisingly, significant differences were noted regarding the distribution of intraoperative and early postoperative complications among the 6 main surgeons while these weren't obious within the intial index group of late revisions.PMID:35754243 | DOI:10.3233/THC-223389
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