Modified Taylor Retractor in Unilateral Subperiosteal Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Frugal Alternative to the Tubular Retractor.

World Neurosurgery
Jaskaran Singh GosalDeepak Kumar Jha

Abstract

To do a comparative surgical outcome and cost-benefit analysis of our simple modified Taylor retractor with both open and tubular techniques in lumbar discectomy. We retrospectively divided 52 lumbar disc patients operated by 2 different techniques between January 2019 and June 2020 into 2 groups- group 1 (n = 20): standard open macrodiscectomy (4-5 cm incision); group 2 (n = 32): unilateral translaminar microdiscectomy using our modified Taylor retractor with a small incision (18-20 mm, comparable to the tubular retractor). We compared both groups in terms of surgical outcomes and cost-benefit analysis. In addition, a cost-benefit comparison between our modified Taylor technique and that of the already published tubular microdiscectomy cohort was done. Complete symptom resolution occurred in 85% group 1 and 84.4% group 2 patients, with no difference in complication rates. Mean hospital stay was significantly less in group 2 (1.2 ± 0.37 days) as compared with group 1 (2.4 ± 1.15, P < 0.001). The mean total cost per patient was $2253.17 ± 69.16 in the modified Taylor microdiscectomy group compared with $2495.76 ± 214.85 (P < 0.001) in standard macrodiscectomy. Compared with the previously published tubular microdiscectomy cohort...Continue Reading

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