This can be attributed to the fact that the routine discharge for patients undergoing microdiscectomy patients and decompressions in this study was scheduled on postoperative day 3.
These included open reduction and internal fixation of a right humerus fracture in 1984, cervical fusion of C4-C6 with fibular strut graft in 2000, L2-S1 laminectomy for umbar spinal stenosis in 2001, discectomy with C3-6 fusion in 2005, fusion of the first metatarsal head with the proximal phalanx in 2009, open reduction and internal fixation of the left distal clavicle fracture in 2010, right knee arthroplasty in 2011, L4-5 microdiscectomy in 2011, repair of the right dorsal distal radial intra-articular fracture in 2014, reconstruction of the left Achilles tendon avulsion in 2014, right total hip replacement in 2015, left total knee arthroplasty in 2016, L4-pelvis posterior internal fixation and fusion for sacral fracture in 2017, and L4-L5 microdecompression in 2017.
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(21) compared video-assisted arthroscopic microdiscectomy to traditional open microdiscectomy and found comparable outcomes with patients in the endoscopic cohort having higher satisfaction, shorter hospital stay, and less narcotic use postoperatively.
In 1934, Mixter and Barr [3] described disk disease causing neural compression for the first time, and in 1970, with the introduction of microscopy microdiscectomy (MD) operations were started [4].