Preoperative and postoperative diagnostic efficiency of multi-inflammatory index on pain scoring of degenerated intervertebral disc.

Background: The inflammatory index can be useful for neurosurgeons to understand and grade pain in degenerated intervertebral disc (DIVD).

Objectives: The study focused on the value of the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and the inflammatory multiple indices (MIs), and aimed to compare its efficiency with the preoperative and postoperative pain scale and scoring algorithms.

Material And Methods: A total of 88 DIVD patients were included in this retrospective clinical cohort study.

Bilateral ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block for postoperative persistent low back pain in lumbar disc surgery.

Background: Persistent low back pain is an important disability after lumbar disc surgery. Erector spinae plane block (ESPB) is highly effective in providing post-surgical pain control, but its effectiveness in long-term persistent low back pain has not been investigated. The aim of this randomized controlled trial was to investigate the effect of ESPB on the reduction of persistent low back pain after surgery.

The contribution of cervical dynamic magnetic resonance imaging to the surgical treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy.

Aim: Cervical spine is the most kinetic segment of the whole vertebrae. The radiologic imaging methods concern with the morphologic changes but give no functional data. At flexion, spinal cord strains, anterior osteophytic compression increases.