Medium-term clinical results of microsurgical lumbar flavectomy that preserves facet joints in cases of lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis: Comparison of bilateral laminotomy with bilateral decompression by a unilateral approach

Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 351-358

  Nakanishi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Tanaka, Nobuhiro ^a   Fujimoto, Yoshinori ^b   Okuda, Teruaki ^b   Kamei, Naosuke ^a   Nakamae, Toshio ^a   Izumi, Bun Ichiro ^a   Ohta, Ryo ^a   Fujioka, Yuki ^a   Ochi, Mitsuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JA HIROSHIMA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

decompression; degenerative spondylolisthesis; ligamentum flavum; lumbar spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILATERAL LAMINOTOMY; BILATERAL SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; BODY POSTURE; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DURA MATER; DURA MATER RUPTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPANESE ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION SCORE; LAMINECTOMY; LEG PAIN; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MICROSURGICAL LUMBAR FLAVECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE PARALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; OSTEOPHYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUPTURE; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 84885472060     PISSN: 15360652     EISSN: 15392465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BSD.0b013e318247f1fd     Document Type: Article

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