“…Most of the published literature is on lumbar discectomy complications, such as postoperative wound hematoma, neuronal injury (including postoperative dysethesia), recurrent herniation, postoperative instability, wrong level of exposure, arachnoiditis, infection, incidental durotomy (including its long term sequelae), and pseudomeningoceles 1,2,5,9,18,26,35,[38][39][40]47,49,51,53,54) . In addition, there have been case reports of rare complications after lumbar discectomy, such as development of an arteriovenous fistula, major vessel injury, epidural fibrosis, ureteral injury, compartment syndrome with acute renal failure, iliac artery injury, intradural disc migration, bowel injury, septicemia, symptomatic pneumorachis, instrument failure, postoperative radicular neuroma, Ogilvie's syndrome, and reflex sympathetic dystrophy 3,4,10,12,13,[15][16][17]19,21,22,34,36,37,41,44,45,48,52) .…”