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Secular changes of spinal canal dimensions in Western Switzerland: a narrowing epidemic?

Spine (Phila Pa 1976)

August 2014

*Department of Orthopedics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), and the University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland and Spine Unit, Clinic Cecil, Lausanne, Switzerland †Medical School, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland ‡Burier Gymnasium, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland; and Departments of §Radiology and ¶Orthopedics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) and the University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Study Design: Computed tomography-based anatomical study.

Objective: To study the secular changes in lumbar spinal canal dimensions.

Summary Of Background Data: Development of symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis, among other factors, is related to the dimensions of the bony canal.

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