Percutaneous Total Endoscopic Resection of Partial Articular Processes for Treatment of Lateral Crypt Stenosis and Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Technical Report and Efficacy Analysis

Table 1

VAS and ODI scores of preoperative and postoperative low-back pain and sciatica (n = 27, ).

	Preoperative	3 days after surgery	3 months after surgery	6 months after surgery	2 years after surgery
Low-back pain VAS score	6.96±0.90	3.52±0.80	3.15±0.95	2.48±0.94	2.04±1.02
Lower-limb pain VAS score	7.19±0.88	3.11±0.75	2.52±0.75	2.04±0.90	1.93±0.92
ODI	(80.07±3.98) %	(58.67±3.68) %#	(38.81±4.94) %#	(34.37±3.72) %#	(29.62±4.26) %#

Note: P<0.05 compared with preoperative; #P<0.05 compared with preoperative.