[The fate of patients after surgical revision of 3 intervertebral spaces in lumbo-ischiadic syndrome]. / Osud pacientov po chirurgickej revízii troch medziodstavcových priestorov pre lumboischiadický syndróm.

The authors present a report on 9 patients (out of which five were female and four male patients) in the age group ranging from 34 to 55 years, who underwent in the period between 1 January 1982 and 31 December 1987 the revision of three intervertebral spades due to the unilateral lumbo-ischiadic syndrome. Operations of such an extent were performed only exceptionally, in case clinical symptoms and myelographic or CT examination proved the lesion of three intervertebral discs. Ensuing from the control examination performed in November 1988 two patients have been invalided and the rest of them working on a full load (five of them doing their original job and two doing a new one). Almost all of them suffer from occasional pain in sacrum and - but for one exception - also in the lower extremity. Only in one case (a female patient) the condition has not improved after the operation. The recovery of working ability has been in most cases facilitated also by spa treatment.