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Filter by:Being confronted more and more with obese as well as older patients, minimally invasive surgery is said to keep the surgical trauma low. The prospective long-term evaluation is the continuous monitoring of patients undergoing lumbar minimally invasive fusion surgery and analyzing the effect of body mass index (BMI) and wound healing.
The study concerns a retrospective analysis of all subjects operated as of 1st Jan 2008 using Minimal Access Surgical Technique (MAST). The study is descriptive in nature and will present the observation of all cumulated patients operated with MAST. The study data will include the general health information of the subjects prior to surgery, information on the surgery such as OP time, blood loss, and the postoperative wound healing process (until discharge), which is on average the 10th postoperative day.