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Epidural lipomatosis has been implicated as a cause or contributor of symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis. Although epidural steroid injections have been very successful for symptomatic treatment of spinal stenosis; their role in treatment of symptomatic stenosis secondary to epidural lipomatosis is unclear. A review literature (MEDLINE, PubMed) found no reports justifying the use of steroids. We present two patients with lumbar epidural lipomatosis causing or contributing to symptomatic spinal stenosis. Both patients presented with unilateral lower limb radicular symptoms unrelieved with conservative measures such as medications and physical therapy. They were treated with a single transforaminal epidural steroid injection at the symptomatic level. Both had 80-85% pain relief. These reports suggest a beneficial role of epidural steroid injections for patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis caused by or contributing to epidural lipomatosis.
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