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Lloyd has compiled what is possibly the most extensive collection of cases of spinal surgery, his cases including operations for both disease and injury. White has collected 37 cases of recent date; and Chipault reports two cases, and collected 33 cases. Quite a tribute to the modern treatment by antisepsis is shown in the results of laminectomy.
The mortality in White's cases, which were all done under antiseptic precautions, was 38 per cent. Of those surviving, there were six complete recoveries, six with benefit, and 11 without marked benefit. Pyle collects 52 cases of spinal disease and injury, in which laminectomy was performed. All the cases were operated upon since 1890.
Although complicated with tertiary syphilis, the woman made a fair recovery, and eight weeks later she walked into a doctor's office. Many similar and equally wonderful injuries to the spine are on record. The results sometimes following the operation of laminectomy for fracture of the vertebrae are often marvelous. One of the most successful on record is that reported by Dundore.
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