Table 2.
Publications used for the device durotomy incidence analysis.
| Study |
Patient No. |
Overall Dural Tears |
Dural Tears Associated with the Device |
Procedure |
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| HSD |
SUA |
KR/BP |
UBS |
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| Al-Mahfoudh et al36 | 62 | 4 | NA | NA | 3 | 1 | Spinal surgery cases |
| Bydon et al27 | 249 | 9 | 0 | NA | 9 | NA | Posterior cervical or thoracic decompression with or without instrumented fusion for extradural pathologies. |
| 88 | 5 | NA | NA | 0 | 5 | ||
| Choi et al37 | 21 | 1 | 0 | NA | 1 | NA | Minimally invasive spinal transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion |
| Dezawa et al38 | 9 | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | Percutaneous endoscopic discectomy for hidden-zone herniated nucleus pulposus |
| Eldin et al50 | 28 | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | Mini-open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion combined with transpedicular screw fixation for spondylolisthesis and degenerative disc disease |
| Farooq et al40 | 200 | 14 | 4 | NA | 5 | NA | Lumbar spine surgery |
| Hazer et al39 | 307 | 5 | NA | NA | NA | 5 | Various |
| Hu et al41 | 128 | 11 | NA | NA | NA | 2 | Various |
| Hiraizumi51 | 50 | 4 | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | Endoscopic lumbar discectomy, first 50 cases |
| Ito et al42 | 12 | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | NA | Laminoplastic laminotomy and hemilaminotomy |
| Kast et al43 | 26 | 1 | 1 | NA | NA | NA | Cervical, occipitocervical, or cervicothoracic stabilization |
| Kim et al44 | 546 | 5 | 0 | 5 | NA | NA | Various |
| Lidar et al59 | 10 | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | Minimally invasive extracavitary approach for thoracic disc herniation |
| Martín-Láen et al60 | 101 | 6 | ? | NA | ? | NA | Conventional microsurgical discectomy |
| 37 | 2 | 1 | NA | 0 | NA | Microendoscopic discectomy | |
| Matsuoka et al45 | 33 | ? | NA | 0 | NA | NA | Various |
| Mummaneni et al52 | 32 | 1 | 0 | NA | 1 | NA | Posterior cervical fixation |
| Nakagawa et al46 | 76 | ? | NA | 0 | NA | NA | Various |
| Nakase et al47 | 98 | ? | ? | 0 | NA | NA | Various |
| Nomura and Yoshida53 | 70 | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | Microendoscopic spinal decompression |
| Onen et al54 | 23 | 3 | ? | NA | ? | NA | Posterior laminectomy to treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy |
| 23 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | 0 | ||
| Orpen et al55 | 100 | 1 | 0 | NA | 1 | NA | Micro-decompression of the lumbar spine |
| Pakzaban48 | 218 | 4 | NA | NA | NA | 2 | Various |
| Parker et al49 | 40 | 1 | NA | NA | NA | 1 | Osteoplastic laminoplasty |
| Siddiqui and Yonemura56 | 14 | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | Cervical microendoscopic discectomy and laminoforaminotomy |
| Sunder and Prasad57 | 40 | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | Microscopic laminotomy and foraminotomy |
| Velho et al58 | 96 (19 spinal) | 0 | NA | NA | NA | 0 | Laminectomies (lumbar and cervical) and cervical corpectomies |
Abbreviations: HSD, high-speed drill; KR/BP, Kerrison Rongeur/bone punch; NA, not applicable; SUA, Sonopet Ultrasonic Aspirator; UBS, ultrasonic BoneScalpel.