"A decade with micro-tubular decompression": Peri-operative complications and surgical outcomes in single and multilevel lumbar canal stenosis.

Purpose: We present ten years experience with micro-tubular decompression (MTD) performed for single and multilevel lumbar canal stenosis (LCS) assessing the peri-operative complications and mid-term surgical outcome. The aims of this study were to review the incidence of peri-operative complications and classification of complications and define risk factors to prevent it while negotiating the learning curve.

Methods: A retrospective review of prospectively collected data over a period of ten years involving 625 patients who underwent single/multilevel lumbar MTD.

Dural Leak: Is It Deterrent to Outcomes in Spine Surgery?: 10 Years Retrospective Analysis of Incidence, Management Protocol, and Surgical Outcomes.

Study Design: Retrospective case-control study.

Objectives: To review the incidence of dural leaks, evaluate the efficacy of primary closure of durotomy and to study its effect on clinical outcome. The secondary aim is to classify the dural leaks and proposing a treatment algorithm for dural leaks.

Unstable Hangman's fracture: Anterior or posterior surgery?

Context: Literature evaluating the efficacy and long-term clinico-radiological outcomes of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and posterior fixation at C2-C3 for the treatment of unstable hangman's fractures is scanty.

Aims: The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy, clinical-radiological outcomes, and complications of ACDF and posterior fixation techniques performed for unstable hangman's fractures.

Settings And Design: The study design involves retrospective comparative study.

Delay before drug susceptibility testing among patients with presumptive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Gujarat, India.

Background: Reducing delay in the diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) by performing genotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) among eligible patients as early as possible can improve clinical presentation and treatment outcomes and reduce transmission. We aimed to determine the delay from being eligible for DST to performing DST and factors associated with the delay.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study involving record review among presumptive MDR-TB patients who underwent genotypic DST from five selected districts in the state of Gujarat, India (2014).