Spinal Stenosis

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Acquired lumbar spinal stenosis. 
  • Affective disorders influence clinical outcomes after revision lumbar surgery in elderly patients with symptomatic adjacent-segment disease, recurrent stenosis, or pseudarthrosis: clinical article. 
  • An 83-year-old woman with chronic illness and strong religious beliefs. 
  • Bilateral transpedicular decompression and Harrington rod stabilization in the management of severe thoracolumbar burst fractures. 
  • Bony Lateral Recess Stenosis and Other Radiographic Predictors of Failed Indirect Decompression via Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion: Multi-Institutional Analysis of 101 Consecutive Spinal Levels. 
  • Cervicothoracic myelopathy in Conradi-Hunermann disease: MRI diagnosis. 
  • Clarification letter: observer agreement of spine stenosis on magnetic resonance imaging analysis of patients with cervical spine myelopathy. 
  • Clinical outcomes following sublaminar decompression and instrumented fusion for lumbar degenerative spinal pathology. 
  • Commentary: Appropriate Use Criteria for Lumbar Degenerative Scoliosis: Developing Evidence-based Guidance for Complex Treatment Decisions. 
  • Comparative Analysis of Inpatient and Outpatient Interspinous Process Device Placement for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. 
  • Complications associated with minimally invasive decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis. 
  • Contralateral radiculopathy after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. 
  • Curve Characteristics and Foraminal Dimensions in Patients With Adult Scoliosis and Radiculopathy. 
  • Degenerative lumbar stenosis: the neurosurgical perspective. 
  • Degenerative lumbar stenosis: update. 
  • Depression and outcome. 
  • Disparities in the outcomes of lumbar spinal stenosis surgery based on insurance status. 
  • Dynamic stabilization. 
  • Expert's comment concerning grand rounds case entitled "surgical treatment of a 180° thoracolumbar fixed kyphosis in a young achondroplastic patient: a one stage 'in situ' combined fusion and spinal cord translocation" (by J. C. Aurégan, T. Odent, M. Zerah, J.-P. Padovani and C. Glorion). 
  • Frequency, timing, and predictors of neurological dysfunction in the nonmyelopathic patient with cervical spinal cord compression, canal stenosis, and/or ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament. 
  • Impact of obesity on complications and outcomes: a comparison of fusion and nonfusion lumbar spine surgery. 
  • Interspinous device versus laminectomy for lumbar spinal stenosis: a comparative effectiveness study. 
  • Lumbar spinal stenosis. 
  • Lumbar spinal stenosis. 
  • Medical management. 
  • Modified open-door laminoplasty for treatment of neurological deficits in younger patients with congenital spinal stenosis: analysis of clinical and radiographic data. 
  • Morbidity and mortality in the surgical treatment of 10,329 adults with degenerative lumbar stenosis. 
  • Observer agreement of spine stenosis on magnetic resonance imaging analysis of patients with cervical spine myelopathy. 
  • Observer variability in assessing lumbar spinal stenosis severity on magnetic resonance imaging and its relation to cross-sectional spinal canal area. 
  • Outcomes of bone morphogenetic protein-2 in mature adults: posterolateral non-instrument-assisted lumbar decompression and fusion. 
  • Pain Sensitivity and Pain Catastrophizing Are Associated With Persistent Pain and Disability After Lumbar Spine Surgery. 
  • Patient Body Mass Index is an Independent Predictor of 30-Day Hospital Readmission After Elective Spine Surgery. 
  • Point of view. 
  • Prevalence, severity, and impact of foraminal and canal stenosis among adults with degenerative scoliosis. 
  • Race as an Independent Predictor of Temporal Delay in Time to Diagnosis and Treatment in Patients with Cervical Stenosis: A Study of 133 Patients with Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion. 
  • Racial disparities in outcomes of spinal surgery for lumbar stenosis. 
  • Randomized controlled trials for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis: which patients benefit from lumbar fusion? 
  • Reversal of lifelong mutism after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for myelopathy. 
  • Revision lumbar surgery in elderly patients with symptomatic pseudarthrosis, adjacent-segment disease, or same-level recurrent stenosis. Part 1. Two-year outcomes and clinical efficacy: clinical article. 
  • Revision lumbar surgery in elderly patients with symptomatic pseudarthrosis, adjacent-segment disease, or same-level recurrent stenosis. Part 2. A cost-effectiveness analysis: clinical article. 
  • Spinal stenosis: an annotated bibliography. 
  • Surgery for spinal stenosis: long-term reoperation rates, health care cost, and impact of instrumentation. 
  • The association of lumbar spondylolisthesis with collagen IX tryptophan alleles. 
  • The clinical value of a cluster of patient history and observational findings as a diagnostic support tool for lumbar spine stenosis. 
  • The impact of standing regional cervical sagittal alignment on outcomes in posterior cervical fusion surgery. 
  • The role of iatrogenic foraminal stenosis from lordotic correction in the development of C5 palsy after posterior laminectomy and fusion. 
  • Transient lumbosacral polyradiculopathy after prostatectomy: association with spinal stenosis. 
  • Treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis by extensive unilateral decompression and contralateral autologous bone fusion: operative technique and results. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Mendoza Lattes, Sergio Andres, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Neurosurgery
  • Turner, Dennis Alan, Professor of Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering