INTRODUCTION Accurate morphometric characterization of the lumbar spinal canal is important in understanding low back disorders such as lumbar spinal stenosis. Current conventional methods measuring the AP diameter of the canal, a common parameter for defining the canal, use practical and clinically available methods where patient CT scans are analyzed in 2D. This method, however, does not take...

Acquired external auditory canal atresia is a rare complication of chronic inflammatory otitis, and is generally fibrous or soft tissue in nature. Here, we present the first reported case of heterotopic ossification within chronic fibrosing otitis externa in a 25-year-old male patient with a childhood history of granular myringitis and failed tympanoplasty. A calcified mass was demonstrated adj...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between spinal canal cross-sectional area (SCCSA) at stenosis level, areas multifidus (MF) muscle L3-S1 levels, and psoas (PSCSA) L3 level in patients with nerve compression due lumbar stenosis. Methods: A total 280 were included study, 140 control group that had been detected magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). patients' ages, gen...

This case study presents the comprehensive post-laminectomy physiotherapy management of Saroj Devi, a 47-year-old female patient diagnosed with cervical canal stenosis. Following laminectomy procedure to alleviate spinal cord and nerve root compression, experienced persistent neck pain, reduced mobility, upper limb weakness, sensory deficits. The aim this was describe assessment findings, goal ...

STUDY DESIGN This is a prospective, multicenter cohort study including 8 medical centers in the metropolitan area of the Canton Zurich, Switzerland. OBJECTIVES To examine whether outcome and quality of life might improve after decompression surgery for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (DLSS) even in patients older than 80 years and to compare data with a younger patient population from our...

BACKGROUND Concurrent cervical and lumbar spinal canal stenosis is known as tandem spinal stenosis (TSS). As research on TSS is limited, there is no consensus on the optimal surgical approach to this problem. We evaluated the prevalence and clinical characteristics of TSS in patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal canal stenosis (LCS). METHODS The authors performed a retrospective analysis of...

background & aim: lumbosacral pain is extremely common as age increases. spinal instrumentation is sometimes recommended for lumbar canal stenosis and disk herniation surgery. this study aimed at studying the frequency of instrumentation in patients referring to our center. methods & materials/patients: this retrospective cross-sectional study included 1200 patients with low back and/or radicul...

BACKGROUND Laminectomy is the traditional operating method for the decompression of spinal canal stenosis. New partial decompression processes have been suggested in the treatment of lumbar stenosis. The benefit of a micro surgical approach is the chance of an extensive bilateral decompression of the spinal canal or foramen at one or numerous levels, through a minimal para-spinal muscular separ...

PURPOSE The aim of our study was to compare the efficacy of physical therapy alone and in combination with calcitonin in patients with neurogenic claudication (NC). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this single blind, and randomized study, patients with lumbar spinal canal stenosis who were diagnosed by clinical findings and MRI and having NC were included. Patients were observed for 8 weeks and evalu...