Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Diagnosis and Management
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چکیده
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis (LSS) is one of the most common spinal pathologies in the United States. LSS is a degenerative spine disorder that affects primarily people over the age of 50 and is one of the most common sine diagnoses requiring surgical intervention in this age group. This article aims to summarize the presentation, examination, work up, and management of the patient with LSS as well as touch upon some the latest clinical trials to aid in the practice of evidence based medicine. *Corresponding author: Ahmed Saleh, Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Fax: 718-283-6199; E-mail: [email protected] Received June 10, 2013; Accepted July 31, 2013; Published August 03, 2013 Citation: Saleh A, Sadeghpour R, Kang KK (2013) Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Diagnosis and Management. J Spine S2: 005. doi:10.4172/2165-7939. S2-005 Copyright: © 2013 Saleh A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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