Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 253-265

  Genevay, Stephane ^a   Atlas, Steven J ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

foraminal stenosis; lumbar spinal stenosis; neurogenic claudication; radicular pain

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CALCITONIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DICLOFENAC; ETODOLAC; GABAPENTIN; LIMAPROST; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PLACEBO;

BRACE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REHABILITATION; REVIEW; STRETCHING EXERCISE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77749342979     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2009.11.001     Document Type: Review

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