Lumbar Microdiscectomy Results
This section provides 'clinical outcome' data for 300 of 339 consecutive patients of Dr Sears who have undergone lumbar microdiscectomy for a herniated lumbar disc (and who had completed pre-operative 'clinical outcome' questionnaires), since November 2007.
Also presented below are the surgical complications for 359 consecutive microdisectomy procedures - 327 patients in the above 'clinical outcome' series and an additional 32 patients, who were not included in that series as they had not completed pre-operative questionnaires.
Page last updated: July 12th, 2023.
Also presented below are the surgical complications for 359 consecutive microdisectomy procedures - 327 patients in the above 'clinical outcome' series and an additional 32 patients, who were not included in that series as they had not completed pre-operative questionnaires.
Page last updated: July 12th, 2023.
Number of patients -
Age of patients -
Average: 54.2 years
Median: 53.6 years
Range: 15.6 - 88.4 years
Length of Follow-up:
Median time from surgery to last follow-up questionnaire: 26.1 months (range: 1.5 - 131.3 months)
Patient Outcomes:
Overall Satisfaction:
at last follow-up (median 24-months):
- with pre-operative 'clinical outcome' data: 339
- with pre-op and follow-up 'clinical outcome' data: 300 (89.7%)
- with minimum 6-months follow-up data: 277 (81.7%)
- with minimum 12-months data: 243 (71.7%)
- with minimum 2-year data 196 (57.8%)
Age of patients -
Average: 54.2 years
Median: 53.6 years
Range: 15.6 - 88.4 years
Length of Follow-up:
Median time from surgery to last follow-up questionnaire: 26.1 months (range: 1.5 - 131.3 months)
Patient Outcomes:
Overall Satisfaction:
at last follow-up (median 24-months):
- "Was the operation worthwhile?"
- Yes 96.3%
- No 3.4%
- Uncertain 0.3%
- "Under similar circumstances, would you have it again?"
- Yes 93.4%
- No 5.9%
- Uncertain 0.7%
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Last follow-up1.1 / 10 1.4 / 10 2.2 / 10 0.6 / 10 1.0 / 10 1.5 / 10 12.7 (+/-15.5) 47.9 (+/-10.3) 52.1 (+/-10.0) |