The degree of decompressive relief and its relation to clinical outcome in patients undergoing surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis

A Herno, T Saari, O Suomalainen, O Airaksinen - Spine, 1999 - journals.lww.com
… collection instruments administered by investigators not involved in the care of the patients.
outcome, although this result agrees with clinical observations. Surgical decompression must …

Decompression alone or decompression and fusion in degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis

FL Wei, CP Zhou, QY Gao, MR Du, HR Gao… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Clinically, there are substantive practice variations in surgical … at evaluating whether
decompression alone outcomes for … that the clinical effectiveness of decompression alone was …

The argument for instrumented decompressive posterolateral fusion for patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis and spinal stenosis

JS Fischgrund - Spine, 2004 - journals.lww.com
… -up, no significant difference in clinical outcome was noted. … of instrumentation did not show
a change in clinical outcome at … treated with posterior decompression and bilateral posterior …

Posterior transpedicular debridement, decompression and instrumentation for thoracic tuberculosis in patients over the age of 60

B He, Z Hu, J Hao, B Liu - Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery, 2012 - Springer
clinical outcomes have been observed using the posterior approach combined with
transpedicular debridement and instrumentation … debridement with instrumentation and fusion …

The role of instrumentation in the degenerative lumbar spine

M Vostrejs, R Ozuna - Current Opinion in Orthopaedics, 1999 - journals.lww.com
… treated with decompression and concomitant arthrodesis had a statistically significant
improvement in clinical outcome compared with patients treated with decompression alone. Of note…

Clinical outcomes of microendoscopic decompression surgery for cervical myelopathy

A Minamide, M Yoshida, H Yamada, Y Nakagawa… - European Spine …, 2010 - Springer
… A skin incision approximately 17 mm in length was made at the spinal level to be decompressed.
The microendoscopic discectomy (MED) and instrumentation developed by Smith and …

Minimum 5-year results of degenerative spondylolisthesis treated with decompression and instrumented posterior fusion

KC Booth, KH Bridwell, BA Eisenberg, CR Baldus… - Spine, 1999 - journals.lww.com
clinical outcome. Only 76% of the patients with instrumentation had a good or excellent
outcome, whereas 85% of those without instrumentation had a good or excellent outcome. Thus, …

Decompression and fusion with or without instrumentation

E Kim, J Heller - Seminars in Spine Surgery, 2020 - Elsevier
… have a more significant impact on clinical outcomes only seen with longer term … clinical
outcomes with long-term follow-up, there are downsides and risks associated with instrumentation

One-stage surgical management for thoracic tuberculosis by anterior debridement, decompression and autogenous rib grafts, and instrumentation

M Li, J Du, H Meng, Z Wang, Z Luo - The Spine Journal, 2011 - Elsevier
… of this study assessed outcomes with anterior surgery alone using modern instrumentation.
… The clinical and radiologic evidences of successful fusion were defined as the absence of …

Is indirect decompression and fusion more effective than direct decompression and fusion for treating degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis with instability? A …

MJ Gagliardi, AJ Guiroy… - Global Spine …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… Our primary objective was to compare the clinical outcomes of … screws instrumentation (LLIF+Perc)
or direct decompression using … Koike et al. analyzed clinical and imaging outcomes in …