Angioleiomyoma of the lumbo-sacral region with unusual keloid-like collagen fibers

Lumbo-sacral arthrodesis after laminectomy.

The necessity for arthrodesis of the lumbo-sacral spine after laminectomy has been performed arises mainly in the treatment of spondylolisthesis and some lesions of the intervertebral discs. In most cases of spondylolisthesis the lamina is loose and unattached to its body, so it can play no useful part in the fusion operation. Apart from this, it should in all cases be removed to allow a thorou...

Lumbo-sacral fusion with spring fixation.

A method of posterior lumbo-sacral fusion is described in which springs are used to fix the grafts and to maintain immobilisation. Fifty patients with lumbar disc degeneration or spondylolisthesis have been reviewed. The results have been assessed clinically by grading the symptoms before and after operation. Stay in hospital has been short and return to work rapid. There has been a high propor...

Lumbo-sacral interbody spinal fusion.

During the years from 1948 to 1956 a lumbo-sacral inter-body spinal fusion was done on forty-eight patients through a posterior approach. The operations have been divided chronologically into three groups. Improvements in the surgical technique were added in the two later groups, so that ultimately a new operative procedure was evolved and used in the last group, which gave the highest rate of ...

On the Endogenous or Intrinsic Fibres in the Lumbo-Sacral Region of the Cord

A Clinical Syndrome Associated with Severe Lumbo-sacral Subluxation.

The term subluxation has been used in this title because it denotes forward displacement of the last lumbar vertebra on the sacrum without a defect of the interarticular part of the neural arch. Some authorities accept the term spondylolisthesis only when a neural arch defect is present, and describe those cases without such a lesion as subluxation despite the marked attenuation of the neural a...