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Immediate Pain Improvement Is a Useful Predictor of Long-Term Favorable Outcome after Percutaneous Laser Disc Decompression for Cervical Disc Herniation

Sang‐Ho Lee, Yong Ahn, Wonchul Choi, Arun Bhanot, Song-Woo Shin

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery · 2006 · 25 citations · 24 references

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Abstract

The long-term clinical outcome of PLDD with LASE was fairly good, with a success rate of 85%. Immediate pain relief is a useful prognostic factor predicting favorable outcome following the procedure.

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Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy for Recurrent Disc Herniation: Surgical Technique, Outcome, and Prognostic Factors of 43 Consecutive Cases

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Posterolateral percutaneous endoscopic lumbar foraminotomy for L5—S1 foraminal or lateral exit zone stenosis

Yong Ahn, Sang‐Ho Lee, Woo-Min Park et al. · Journal of Neurosurgery Spine · 2003 · 148 citations

Revision of anterior cervical pseudarthrosis with anterior allograft fusion and plating

Domagoj Coric, Charles L. Branch, Jeffrey D. Jenkins · Journal of neurosurgery · 1997 · 107 citations

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