Surgical Decompression

06/01/2003 - "SCS is the most effective treatment for limb pain not amenable to surgical decompression. "
12/01/2003 - "A high index of suspicion for these combined lesions, along with adequate surgical decompression and rotator cuff repair, is essential in providing pain relief and improved function."
01/01/2011 - "After she underwent surgical decompression pain relief occurred and overall functional results improved. "
01/01/2007 - "After surgical decompression, 35 (60%) patients were classified as responders, based on one of the following three criteria: a greater than 50% reduction in VAS score, a greater than 50% improvement in global assessment of pain, or a greater than 50% improvement in function and quality of life. "
01/01/2007 - "Patients were assessed before and after surgical decompression: degree of pain was assessed by visual analog scale (VAS) score, percent global overall improvement, and improved function and quality of life before surgery and 12 months or longer after surgery. "

01/01/2005 - "Efficacy of surgical decompression in the setting of complete thoracic spinal cord injury."
12/01/1997 - "Although surgical decompression is often advocated for acute spinal cord injury, the timing and efficacy of early treatment have not been clinically proven. "
09/01/2011 - "Surgical decompression is the mainstay of treatment for incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) and incomplete CMS and CES. "
07/01/2015 - "The current study was based on the hypothesis that early surgical decompression and fixations in acute subaxial cervical spinal cord trauma is safe and is associated with improved outcome as compared to delayed surgical decompression. "
09/01/2012 - "Design and rationale of a Prospective, Observational European Multicenter study on the efficacy of acute surgical decompression after traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: the SCI-POEM study."

10/01/2012 - "Carpal tunnel syndrome is a very common hand condition, which after a failure of conservative treatment can be treated successfully with surgical decompression in either an open or endoscopic manner. "
03/01/2003 - "A patient suffering from recalcitrant carpal tunnel syndrome despite 4 surgical decompressions was treated successfully with revision carpal tunnel release, neurolysis, and autogenous saphenous vein wrapping of the median nerve. "
01/01/1975 - "Surgical decompression was performed in two hundred ninety one cases of carpal tunnel syndrome with good results in 80%, fair results in 10% and poor results in 10% of the cases."
07/01/2010 - "There is not common opinion about efficacy of intervention in extreme carpal tunnel syndrome, characterised by severe conduction disturbances in electrophysiological tests and fixed neurological deficits, however surgical decompression of the carpal tunnel appears to be more promising than decline of the treatment. "
11/01/2013 - "Average 2-point discrimination was 10.0 mm before surgery and 5.4 mm after surgery, average grip strength improved from 13.5 kg to 21.0 kg, and average tip pinch strength improved from 4.1 kg to 7.0 kg. The perforator-based radial forearm fascial flap may prove useful in the setting of recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome after surgical decompression. "

10/01/2015 - "This article describes cervical spondylotic myelopathy, its diagnosis and management, and recent data that offer strong evidence that patients who undergo surgical decompression show significant improvement over patients who are treated conservatively. "
12/02/2015 - "Although surgical decompression is considered the gold standard treatment for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM), a proportion of cases show postoperative decline or continue to exhibit substantial neurological dysfunction. "
01/01/2014 - "Patients with thoracic myelopathy from thoracic arachnoid pathology often have improvement in their condition after surgical decompression/detethering procedures. "
09/18/2013 - "Surgical decompression for the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy was associated with improvement in functional, disability-related, and quality-of-life outcomes at one year of follow-up for all disease severity categories. "
01/01/2012 - "(1) baseline cervical spine evaluation and regular neurological assessment should be performed in all MPS VI patients, (2) detailed neurological observation should be conducted in patients treated with ERT, especially in the period of improvement in the osteoarticular system, as ERT fails to prevent cervical myelopathy and (3) surgical decompression is required and in order to achieve a satisfying outcome it might be crucial to perform surgery at an early age."

06/01/2014 - "We aimed to assess the efficacy of surgical decompression of metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC) in patients ≧65 years and review our multidisciplinary surgical decision-making process. "
05/01/2005 - "In severe compressive myelopathy, proprioceptive ability would be reduced and could be improved after surgical decompression. "
01/01/2012 - "This study reports the results of a systematic review comparing surgical decompression ± radiation to radiation therapy alone among patients with metastatic spinal cord compression. "
07/15/1999 - "A few studies have described the use of 18FDG-PET imaging in cervical cord diseases, but visualization of the cervical spinal cord before and after surgical decompression for compressive myelopathy has not been reported. "
01/01/2015 - "Delayed neurological deterioration in the absence of direct spinal cord insult following surgical decompression is a severe postoperative complication in patients with chronic severe spinal cord compression (SCC). "