... country/currency coverage (n), relative prices (P/Pi), weights (wi) and exchange rates (e/ei) The revision of REER relating to the above parameters/variables is as follows II COVERAGE The new six-currency...
... the facet joint MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient enrollment and evaluation All patients treated with endoscopic facet debridement at our institution from 2003-2007 with at least years follow-up were ... Change Oswestry Cervical Thoracic Lumbar -1-25% 1 No Change (N) 1-24% (N) In comparison of the endoscopic surgery approach to conventional facet joint therapies, out of the 114 lumbar facet patients, ... patients, 72 patients underwent facet injections elsewhere as treatment prior to considering the endoscopic option The facet injections in these 72 patients gave 50 to 100% relief of their pain...
... comparing a cemented revision implant to a cemented primary implant Wirtz and Niethard [54] reported a higher revision rate associated with aseptic loosening of cemented revision prostheses compared ... severely defective acetabulum and a Girdlestone situation is undesirable Two-stage revision Two-stage septic revision surgery is the most common method for treating infected endoprostheses A general ... possible to achieve a survival rate using two-stage revision concepts for infected hip arthroplasties of between 90% and 100% [1,30-32] In most two-stage revisions an antibiotic-containing spacer is...
... foraminal stenosis treated with endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty via a small incision, of less than one inch Materials and Methods Twelve patients were treated with endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty ... RG, Khoo LT Minimally invasive cervical microendoscopic foraminotomy: an initial clinical experience Neurosurgery 2002; 51: S37-S45 Adamson TE Microendoscopic posterior cervical laminoforaminotomy ... Fessler RG Microendoscopic decompressive laminotomy for the treatment of lumbar stenosis Neurosurgery 2002; 51: S146-S154 Perez-Cruet MJ, Kim BS, Sandhu F, et al Thoracic microendoscopic discectomy...
... nonrandomized trial of endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty for the treatment of foraminal spinal stenosis Methods This was a prospective study of 64 patients who underwent endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty ... group, preventing an adequate comparison of endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty to conventional open decompression However, our results support the safety of endoscopic interventions and highlight the ... TE: Microendoscopic posterior cervical laminoforaminotomy for unilateral radiculopathy: results of a new technique in 100 cases J Neurosurg 2001, 95:51-57 18 Khoo LT, Fessler RG: Microendoscopic...
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