腰部脊柱管狭窄症・手術成績の検討

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Since 1979 54 patients of lumbar spinal stenosis have been operated on in our clinic. Follow-up study was carried out in 48 cases. The sesults were classified as excellent in 11 cases (22.9%), good in 15 cases (33.3%), fair in 8 cases (16.7%), and poor in 13 (27.1%). On the whole, we couldnot always obtain good results. We considered the causes of poor results as the deficiency of laminectomy levels and width and postoperative instability etc..