1. Global Burden of Disease Study: Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet 2016; 388: 1545–602.
2. Stafford MA, Peng P, Hill DA: Sciatica: a review of history,epidemiology, pathogenesis, and the role of epidural steroid injection in management. Br J Anaesth 2007; 99: 461–73.
3. Bauer J, Böhle E, Bork H , Broll-Zeitvogel E, Brüggemann S, et al.: S2k-Leitlinie – Konservative, operative und rehabilitative Versorgung bei Bandscheibenvorfällen mit radikulärer Symptomatik. https://register.awmf.org/de/leitlinien/detail/187–057 (last accessed on 13 March 2024).
4. Ahn UM, Ahn NU, Buchowski JM, Garrett ES, Sieber AN, Kostuik JP: Cauda equina syndrome secondary to lumbar disc herniation: a meta-analysis of surgical outcomes. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2000; 25: 1515–22.
5. Kohles SS, Kohles DA, Karp AP, Erlich VM, Polissar NL: Time-dependent surgical outcomes following cauda equina syndrome diagnosis: comments on a meta-analysis. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2004; 1281–7.