The degree of invasiveness has no influence on the rate of incidental durotomies in surgery for lumbar spinal canal stenosis. Data from the German Spine Registry.

CONCLUSIONS: The groups decompression vs. decompression plus fusion are statistically comparable. Although the stabilization with instrumentation is a more invasive procedure with longer operation times, more trauma tissue and blood loss in comparison with microsurgical decompression no difference in the rate of incidental durotomies was found. PMID: 30311604 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: J Neurosurg Sci Source Type: research