This report describes a special case of thoracic spinal canal stenosis, which is rarely mentioned in the literature. Thoracic spinal canal stenosis is unusual because it is caused by comprehensive elements and involves multiple segments of the thoracic spine. Compared with the cervical spinal stenosis and lumbar spinal stenosis, thoracic spinal canal stenosis has lower morbidity. This patient u...

Introduction Lumbar spinal stenosis is narrowing of the central spinal canal, lateral recess or the neural foramen. After initial recognition of spinal stenosis in 1802, a gradual understanding evolved over the next 150 years.1-4 Harris and Macnab described the importance of disc degeneration in the pathogenesis of stenosis.5 Macnab highlighted the lateral recess beneath the posterior facet joi...

Introduction: Low backache is a common condition to occur in the middle age. It is mainly caused by the degeneration of the intervertebral disc which forms the main support to the vertebral column. Lumbar spinal canal stenosis results in the compression of spinal cord and nerves at the level of lumbar vertebra. Aim: The purpose of this study is to measure the spinal canal dimensions and correla...

Spinal stenosis may rarely involve both cervical and lumbar spines. An alternative surgical strategy used for the treatment of combined cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis is presented. Two cases with symptomatic combined stenosis of the cervical and lumbar spinal canal are described. Simultaneous surgery was performed in both cases. The combined stenosis of the cervical and lumbar spinal canal...

Spinal stenosis is caused by narrowing of the spinal canal or neural foramina producing root ischaemia and neurogenic claudication [1] . Stenosis of the spinal canal is most often caused by a combination of loss of disc space, osteophytes and a hypertrophic ligamentum flavum. Not all patients with narrowing develop symptoms. However, the narrowing may progress to cause compression of the spinal...

Three cases of postoperative lumbar spinal canal stenosis due to anterior spinal fusion were reported. In these cases stenosis occurred at the adjacent intervertebral disc level of the fused segment a considerable time after anterior spinal fusion performed for spondvlolisthesis. At the stenotic level of the lumbar spinal canal, hypertrophy of the lamina, body spur formation in the articular pr...

Aim: The aim of our study; to investigate the location hypertrophy in epidural adipose tissue lumbar spinal stenosis clinic, compare area measurements canal and dural sac patients with a preliminary diagnosis or radiculopathy, determine place superior articular process measurement stenosis.
 Material Method: 180 aged 50-69 years who underwent Lumbar Magnetic Resonance Imaging were divided ...

We reviewed the records of 28 patients with 30 burst-dispersion spinal fractures treated since the introduction of CT facilities in Western Australia. Twenty-five patients showed spinal canal deformity and stenosis with bone fragments protruding into the canal on the initial scan. Of these, 22 patients were treated nonsurgically. Fifteen of the conservatively treated patients were available for...

Direct measurements were made on 2,166 lumbar vertebrae of 433 adult negro and caucasoid skeletons. On statistical analysis, forty-five vertebrae in twenty-seven skeletons were found to be stenotic, the mid-sagittal diameter being the significantly reduced dimension. Whereas spinal stenosis syndromes are rare in South African negroes, the lumbar canal is marginally narrower in the negro. There ...