TY - BOOK AU - Omar Youssef Abdallah Abuhamed AU - Hazem Abdelsattar Abuelnasr , AU - Helmy Abdelhaleem Eldesoky , AU - Omar Osman Soroor , TI - Surgical management of failed back syndrome / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Omar Youssef Abdallah Abuhamed , KW - Back pain KW - Failed Back Syndrome KW - Sciatica N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Neurosurgery; Issued also as CD N2 - Failed back syndrome ( FBS ) refers to chronic back and / or leg pain that occur aflter back ( spinal ) surgery . About 30% of patients undergoing lumbosacral surgery "fail " . In this study we prospectivelyevaluated the clinical outcome of fifty six patients with FBS treated surgically in the Neurosurgical department of Cairo University between March 2009 and March 2010 to establish a proper algorithm for the surgical treatment of these cases UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -