Traitement chirurgical du canal lombaire stenose

ABSTRACT

The authors report the results of a retrospective study of 38 lumbar spinal stenosis all operated in ten years [24 degeneratives, 12 congenital, 2 mixed]. All the patients had a low-back pain and a radicular pain, 76.3% had a polyradicular claudication with neurological defect for 4 patients. Surgery consisted of a posterior lateral spinal canal calibration and excision of a disc herniation at one or two levels in more than the half of cases. At a Mean follow-up of 6 years [18 months - 10 years] the global result was excellent or good in 86% of cases