Letter to the editor regarding "The impact of being overweight or obese on 12-month clinical recovery in patients following lumbar microdiscectomy for radiculopathy" by Willems et al

Spine J. 2024 Apr;24(4):736-737. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2024.01.005.

Authors

Jaskeerat Gujral¹, Mert Marcel Dagli², Om H Gandhi², Yohannes Ghenbot², Pravesh S Gadjradj³, Ali K Ozturk², William C Welch²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: jgujral@sas.upenn.edu.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian-Och Spine, New York, NY, USA.

PMID: 38548429
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2024.01.005

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Diskectomy / adverse effects
Humans
Intervertebral Disc Displacement* / surgery
Lumbar Vertebrae / surgery
Obesity / complications
Obesity / surgery
Overweight / surgery
Patients
Radiculopathy* / etiology
Radiculopathy* / surgery
Treatment Outcome