Newer, minimally invasive surgery to treat sciatica does not result in better outcomes
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 16:28
in Health & Medicine
A comparison of surgical treatments for sciatica finds that the minimally invasive procedure known as tubular diskectomy does not provide a significant difference in improvement of functional disability compared to the more common surgery, conventional microdiskectomy, according to a study in the July 8 issue of JAMA.