Spinal canal diameter in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis

Sethi, R. K.; Singh, Vishram

doi:10.1016/j.jasi.2018.07.005

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“…The challenge for anatomically based determination is that, while necessary for the diagnosis of LSS, it is not sufficient to determine the severity of symptoms which lead a patient to seek treatment [4]. The extent of narrowing of the spinal canal correlates poorly with symptom severity, and radiologically significant lumbar spinal stenosis is also found in asymptomatic individuals [4–7]. As a consequence, correlating symptoms and physical examination findings with the decompression levels based on common imaging results are not reliable.…”

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Relationship between the benefits of paraspinal mapping and diffusion tensor imaging and the increase of decompression levels determined by conventional magnetic resonance imaging in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis

Chen

Peng

et al. 2019

J Orthop Surg Res

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BackgroundIn lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), at most times, several levels are impaired and selecting the correct level remains a common problem for surgeons, as surgery remains invasive, and extended laminectomy may lead to secondary surgical complications. Therefore, helping to select the correct level may be useful for surgeons. The use of diffuse tensor imaging (DTI) and paraspinal mapping (PM) in addition to conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be helpful (Chen et al., J Orthop Surg Res 11:47, 2016). However, with decompression levels determined by conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) increasing, whether the benefits of reducing decompression level of conventional MRI + (DTI or PM) will be more obvious is unknown.MethodsReduced surgical levels that were different between levels determined by conventional MRI + (DTI or PM) and conventional MRI + neurogenic examination (NE) between groups were compared. Treatment outcome measures were performed at 2 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months postoperatively.ResultsThe reduced levels of three groups showed no statistically significant differences between each other except for two levels and four levels (two levels/three levels, p = 0.085; two levels/four levels, p = 0.039; three levels/ four levels, p = 0.506, respectively).ConclusionsWith surgical levels determined by conventional MRI increasing, the benefits of DTI and PM will be uncertainly more obvious.

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