Impact of Sarcopenia on Percutaneous Epidural Balloon Neuroplasty in Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: A Retrospective Analysis.

: With the aging population, the incidence of degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is increasing. Sarcopenia is an age-related muscular decrease. Although epidural balloon neuroplasty is effective in patients with LSS refractory to conventional treatments, its effect has not been assessed in patients with sarcopenia.

[The characteristics of sinus headache resembling the primary headaches].

It has to be excluded organic lesions to diagnose the primary headache, however they are tended to be misdiagnosed in a routine practice. Acute sinusitis is the most common disease to be misdiagnosed as the primary headaches and we have reported that the characteristics of sinus headache have closely resembled migraine, cluster headache or tension type headache. The effectiveness of triptans does not become an evidence for a diagnosis of migraine or cluster headache, because it was also effective for the pain of the acute sinusitis.