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## Objective To assess the clinical efficacy of one‐stage percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy (PELD) for symptomatic double‐level contiguous adolescent lumbar disc herniation (ALDH). ## Methods This retrospective study included 16 patients who presented with back and/or leg pain due to double‐level disc herniation underwent PELD for symptomatic lumbar disc herniation (0.27%,16/5877) from January 2014 to September 2019. After follow‐up period of 17.3 months in average, numeric rating scale (NRS) scores and modified Macnab criteria were used to assess the preoperative and postoperative clinical results. Quantitative data were expressed as mean standard deviation (SD) and the data for the variation in the NRS scores before and after the operation were compared using the Wilcoxon two‐sample test. Analyses were performed with IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 19.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA). Values of P < 0.05 were considered significantly different. ## Results There were 11 male and 5 female patients, with an average age of 19.3 years (range, 15–22 years). One case affected the L~2~‐ L~3~ /L~3~‐L~4~ level, seven cases affected the L~3~‐ L~4~ /L~4~‐ L~5~ level, and eight cases

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Author

Lu Mao; Bin Zhu; Xiao‐tao Wu

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)