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Facet Effusion without Radiographic Instability Has No Effect on the Outcome of Minimally Invasive Decompression Surgery

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE: Lumbar segmental instability is a key factor determining whether decompression alone or decompression and fusion surgery is required to treat lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). Some recent reports have suggested that facet joint effusion is correlated...

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Autores principales: Tamai, Koji, Kato, Minori, Konishi, Sadahiko, Matsumura, Akira, Hayashi, Kazunori, Nakamura, Hiroaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5400161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28451505
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1583173