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The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 7 Preoperative and 18 months postoperative VAS and ODI

From: Decompressive laminectomy with instrumented posterolateral fusion for degenerative lumbar disease in elderly, is it safe and beneficial?

Evaluation scale

Preoperative

18 months postop.

Wilcoxon test

P-value

VAS (Mean±SD)

7.8±0.87

1.8±1.04

-5.159

< 0.00001*

ODI (Mean±SD)

58.1±11

17.5±8.3

-5.159

< 0.00001*

  1. VAS Visual analog scale, ODI Oswestry disability index. *P value
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