ABSTRACT
A group of 38 patients with hernia of the lumbar intravertebral disks who had undergone endoscopic microdiskectomy by DESTANDO was evaluated for life quality and compared with the control group (the patients had been operated on by the routine procedure and healthy individuals). The incidence of the postdiskectomic syndrome was studied in the compared groups of patients. It was shown that life quality in patients with lumbar pains could be evaluated, by using the general health status questionnaire and the specific lumbar pain questionnaire MiGAN. The life quality during the follow-up was considerably higher than that after endoscopic microdiskectomy, in males in particular. The use of endoscopic microdiskectomy reduced the incidence of the postdiskectomic syndrome by more than twice.
