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Meta-Analysis
. 2022 Mar 16:2022:6033989.
doi: 10.1155/2022/6033989. eCollection 2022.

Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Percutaneous Spinal Endoscopy versus Traditional Open Surgery for Lumbar Disc Herniation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Xingping Xu  1   2 , Changwei Chen  1   2 , Yong Tang  1   2 , Fusheng Wang  1   2 , Yangsheng Wang  1   2
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Meta-Analysis

Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Percutaneous Spinal Endoscopy versus Traditional Open Surgery for Lumbar Disc Herniation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Xingping Xu et al. J Healthc Eng. .

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Abstract

Objective: Systematic analysis of the incidence of percutaneous spinal endoscopic technique and traditional open surgery for lumbar disc herniation.

Methods: A randomized controlled trial (RCT) and cohort study on complications related to traditional open surgery was searched on the MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, PubMed, Web of Science, Chinese journal full-text database (CNKI), Wanfang, and Embase database. Language is not limited. The quality of each study was evaluated, various complications were compiled into electronic baseline tables, and the data from these studies were available. Meta-analysis and synthesis were performed with the RevMan 5.3 software to evaluate the statistical significance of both surgical techniques in terms of various complications.

Results: 12 studies were eventually included, and a total of 2,797 patients were included in the analysis. Meta-analysis results showed that there was no statistical difference in postoperative paresthesia between percutaneous spinal endoscopy and traditional open surgery (OR = 1.17, 95% CI (0.82, 1.66), P = 0.38, I 2 = 0%, Z = 0.88), direct nerve root damage (OR = 0.79, 95% CI (0.58, 1.07), P = 0.13, I 2 = 73%, Z = 1.52), and intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma formation (OR = 1.00, 95% CI (0.67, 1.48), P = 0.99, I 2 = 0%, Z = 0.02), but there was a statistical difference in disc recurrence (OR = 2.24, 95% CI (1.56, 3.21), P < 0.0001, I 2 = 81%, Z = 4.39).

Conclusion: Compared with the traditional open surgical treatment of lumbar disc herniation, percutaneous spinal endoscopic technology has obvious advantages in reducing nerve root injury, dural injury, and surgical area wound complications, but it is limited to preventing the technical characteristics of the surgical site, which is worse than that of open surgery.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Flow chart of the literature screening.
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Literature quality evaluation chart. (a) Risk of bias graph. (b) Risk of bias summary.
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(a, b) Funnel plot of literature publication bias.
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Meta-analysis of postoperative paresthesia between two groups.
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Meta-analysis of direct nerve root damage between two groups.
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Meta-analysis of disc recurrence between two groups.
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Meta-analysis of intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma formation between two groups.
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