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SPINAL STENOSIS, A CAUSE OF CAUDA EQUINA COMPRESSION



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Abstract

1. The syndrome of spinal stenosis is due to compression of the cauda equina from structural narrowing of the lumbar spinal canal.

2. Patients with this syndrome present symptoms of cauda equina claudication or of unremitting bizarre back pain and sciatica.

3. The compression of the cauda equina is always posterior and postero-lateral and is caused by narrowing of the lateral recesses and of the dorso-ventral diameter of the spinal canal.

4. The diagnosis can be made only by myelography. The only form of successful relief of the nerve root compression in spinal stenosis is adequate lateral and longitudinal decompression.

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