Open AccessAre There Differences Between Patients with Extreme Stenosis and Non-extreme Stenosis in Terms of Pain, Function or Complications After Spinal Decompression Using a Tubular Retractor System?
Author(s) -
Arvind G. Kulkarni,
Saubhik Das,
Tushar Satish Kunder
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1097/corr.0000000000001004
Subject(s) - medicine , lumbar spinal stenosis , spinal stenosis , decompression , stenosis , neurogenic claudication , surgery , claudication , lumbar , back pain , radiology , vascular disease , arterial disease , alternative medicine , pathology
Micro-tubular decompression in extreme lumbar spinal stenosis is challenging because it is technically difficult to achieve adequate decompression. Whether the results of micro-tubular decompression related to pain, function, and complications in lumbar spinal stenosis of the extreme and non-extreme varieties are different has not yet been conclusively established.