Evaluation of functional outcomes in individuals 10 years after posterior lumbar interbody fusion with corundum implants and decompression: a comparison of 2 surgical techniques.

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate lumbar spine-related functional disability in individuals 10 years after lumbar decompression and lumbar decompression with posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) with corundum implants surgery for degenerative stenosis and to compare the long-term outcome of these 2 surgical techniques.

Material/methods: From 1998 to 2002, 100 patients with single-level lumbar stenosis were surgically treated. The patients were randomly divided into 2 groups that did not differ in terms of clinical or neurological symptoms.

Return to work after spinal stenosis surgery and the patient's quality of life.

Introduction: The return to work of patients who undergo spinal surgery poses important medical and social challenge.

Objectives: 1) To establish whether patients who undergo spinal stenosis surgery later return to work. 2) To establish the patient's attitude towards employment.

Diagnostic and therapeutic problems of back pain syndromes and their distribution according to a colour coding system of flags.

Background: Back pain poses a serious clinical problem in some cases, because under the clinical symptoms of back pain might be other hidden diseases. The aim of this study was to present difficulties in diagnosis and treatment of various diseases of the spine and 2. description to the flagship division, based on the traffic lights.

Digital computed tomography evaluation of spinal canal and dural sac before and after surgical decompression of lumbar stenosis.

Introduction: Advances in digital computed tomography prompted the authors to use this technique to measure correlations between the lumbar spinal canal and the dural sac. The aim of the study was to: 1. Evaluate the value of surgical decompression of neural structures using digital computed tomography.

Assessment of spinal canal shape and intervertebral joint angles in lumbar spine.

Background: Publications concerning the shape of the spinal canal and degenerative changes in the intervertebral joints have not described this issue in full detail to date, especially with regard to the causes of pain syndromes associated with degenerative changes in intervertebral joints. The aim of the study was to assess the shape of the spinal canal and joint surface angles at L3, L4 and L5.

Material And Methods: The study involved 176 patients with clinical and radiological evidence of spinal canal stenosis confirmed by computed tomography.