Clinical Study
Complications of Minimally Invasive, Tubular Access Surgery for Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar Surgery
Table 1
Surgical case distribution.
| | Surgery | Procedure | Number () | Durotomy () |
| | Lumbar | Paramedian discectomy | 295 | 12 | | Redo discectomy | 55 | 3 | | Two-level discectomy | 1 | 0 | | Far lateral discectomy | 88 | 1 | | Redo far lateral discectomy | 11 | 0 | | Stenosis, single level | 186 | 7 | | Stenosis, multilevel | 59 | 6 | | Stenosis, redo | 1 | 0 | | Synovial cyst | 44 | 1 | | Epidural abscess | 15 | 0 | | Other | 3 | 0 | | Foraminotomy, single level | 149 | 1 | | Foraminotomy, multilevel | 21 | 1 | | Foraminotomy, bilateral | 1 | 0 | | Total lumbar | 929 | 32 |
| | Cervical | Foraminotomy, single level | 160 | 0 | | Foraminotomy, two-level | 72 | 0 | | Foraminotomy, bilateral | 1 | 0 | | Foraminotomy, discectomy | 11 | 0 | | Foraminotomy, redo | 9 | 0 | | Laminectomy for stenosis | 6 | 0 | | Laminectomy for tumor | 1 | 0 | | Laminectomy for epidural hematoma | 1 | 0 | | Laminectomy for synovial cyst | 1 | 0 | | Total cervical | 262 | 0 |
| | Thoracic | Discectomy | 7 | 1 | | Laminectomy for stenosis | 5 | 0 | | Laminectomy for biopsy | 4 | 0 | | Laminectomy for abscess | 1 | 0 | | Laminectomy for tumor | 3 | 0 | | Laminotomy for electrode | 20 | 0 | | Total thoracic | 40 | 1 |
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