Lumbar spinal stenosis: Treatment strategies and indications for surgery

Orthopedic Clinics of North America

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 281-295

  Sengupta, Dilip K ^a   Herkowitz, Harry N ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CALCITONIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; STEROID;

ACUPUNCTURE; BRACE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INJECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LAMINECTOMY; LONG TERM CARE; LUMBAR SPINE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SENESCENCE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TRACTION THERAPY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0038678126     PISSN: 00305898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-5898(02)00069-X     Document Type: Review

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