Cristiani-Winer M, Ortiz P, Orosco-Falcone D, Guimbard-Pérez J, Carabajal J, Eluani M

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: there are numerous classifications for herniated discs, such classifications guide professionals about the severity of the lesion, the possible clinical picture of the patient, the most appropriate treatment and are undoubtedly a predictive tool to project the possible results of the therapies used. The main purpose of this work is to validate the inter- and intra-observer reliability of the Michigan State University (MSU) classification among the spine surgeons of our service and also to know the risk factors associated with the patients who underwent lumbar discectomy, the most affected disc level, the clinical presentation and the previous treatments performed in the patients treated by our team. Material and methods: 50 nuclear magnetic resonance (MR) images in axial T2 section corresponding to the "maximum disc herniation" level were selected from patients diagnosed and submitted to meningo-radicular release surgery and single level lumbar discectomy retrospectively in the last two years from our database; these images were distributed among three spine surgeons of our institution. The three spine surgeons gave a specific classification for each MR image based on the MSU classification, then at an interval of seven days one of the three surgeons reclassified the images. The degree of agreement between surgeons was analyzed by calculating interobserver and intraobserver reliability using kappa statistical analysis. Results: the analysis of the kappa coefficient indicated that most of the comparisons by observer gave a "good" concordance strength, the kappa index was higher than 0.64 in all the possible comparisons of the observations. In relation to the number of coincidences, in 60% of the patients there was a total coincidence between the three surgeons, with two coincidences in 24%, and in 16% there was no coincidence at all. For the intraobserver analysis the kappa index was 0.953 with a very good concordance strength, the observed agreement was 96%. Conclusion: our research shows a good reliability in the MSU classification among spine surgeons of our institution, as well as very good when reclassifying the intraobserver; we believe that having a sagittal MRI slice to classify them would be very useful, more research is needed to give a prognostic value to the location and size of the hernia and its relation with the surgical indication.

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