The degree of decompressive relief and its relation to clinical outcome in patients undergoing surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis

Spine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1010-1014

  Herno, Arto ^a   Saari, Tapani ^a   Suomalainen, Olavi ^a   Airaksinen, Olavi ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computed tomographic scan; Lumbar spinal stenosis; Patient satisfactory; Surgical outcome; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BACKACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINAL STENOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 0033562417     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199905150-00015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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