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The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 6 Comparison between the 2 study groups regarding the operative time, intraoperative blood loss and incidence of operative complications

From: Minimally invasive surgical management of symptomatic lumbar disc herniation: can the endoscope replace the microscope?

 

MD

ED

p

Mean

 ± SD

Mean

 ± SD

Operative time (min)

65.75

7.99

139.3

55.0

0.001*

Blood loss (ml)

47.25

14.44

88.8

22.1

0.001*

Complications

     

No

18

90%

17

85%

0.342**

Yes

2

10%

3

15%

 
  1. MD microscopic discectomy, ED endoscopic discectomy, Min minutes, Ml milliliters, SD standard deviation
  2. *Student t test
  3. **Fisher exact test
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