BACKGROUND: Many patients with lumbar disc surgery experience postoperative back and
radicular pain, delaying hospital discharge and resumption of normal activity. Some …

Study Design. A prospective, randomized, controlled trial that compared the efficacy of
different protocols of local tissue infiltration with bupivacaine or bupivacaine …

Study Design. A randomized, double-blind placebo controlled trial in multimodal analgesia
for postoperative pain was conducted. Objective. To examine whether combination of …

Study Design. A prospective and controlled study of perioperative use of combined local
anesthetic and corticosteroid in lumbar disc surgery. Summary of Background Data. The anti …

Study Design. A prospective, randomized triple-blind clinical trial. Objective. To evaluate the
effect of 40 and 80 mg intravenous (IV) dexamethasone versus placebo to reduce …

Background & aim Intraoperative epidural corticosteroids have been used to decrease post-
operative pain post-discectomy. The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy of …

Background This study is a descriptive review of the literature aimed at examining the
efficacy of the use of intraoperative epidural steroids in lumbar disc surgery, a matter that …

Objective: In this randomized and prospective research, we aimed to relieve surgical and
muscle-related pain early after lumbar disc operations with caudal preemptive analgesia …

The effects of instilling methylprednisolone acetate (MP)(Depo-Medrol) onto the exposed
nerve root during a unilateral lumbar laminotomy (either L4 or L5) for disc excision was …

Study Design. We randomized 200 patients after lumbar discectomy to receive epidural
steroid or none with a 2-year follow-up. Objective. To evaluate the outcome, neurologic …