Second opinion on spine surgeries: an option or necessity?

Hospita Israelita Albert Einstein (Brazil)0 个研究点目标入组 560 人开始时间: 2013年2月25日最近更新: 2017年11月20日

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•Recruitment of patients took place in a private hospital in order to give a second opinion of all patients who were referred to spinal (cervical and lumbar) surgical intervention from other hospitals. To be eligible, participants had to meet the following criteria:
•1. Adults aged 18 years or older with any indication of spinal surgery due to lumbar or cervical stenosis, lumbar or cervical disc herniation, and other causes of chronic back pain including the annulus fibrosus of the disc, spinal ligaments, spinal nerves, dorsal root ganglia, zygapophyseal joint, sacroiliac joint, and paraspinal muscles
•2. No medical contraindication to general anaesthesia
•3. Understanding of Portuguese language and written informed consent

•1. Patients with spinal fractures
•2. Scoliosis
•3. Congenital spinal deformity
•4. Spinal tumours
•5. Inability to comply with follow-up (a transient or an inability to read or complete forms).

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Hospita Israelita Albert Einstein (Brazil)