RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Nierengarten, Mary Beth
T1 Stabilization Device Superior to Fusion After Decompression for LSS
JF MD Conference Express
YR 2015
FD SAGE Publications
VO 15
IS 7
SP 10
OP 10
DO 10.1177/1559897715586397
UL http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/15/7/10.abstract
AB In patients with moderate to severe lumbar spinal stenosis and back pain, use of an interlaminar stabilization device after surgical decompression achieves significantly superior clinical outcomes at 3-year follow-up compared with use of standard treatment with posterolateral fusion, suggesting increasingly favorable clinical and radiographic outcomes with ILS compared with fusion in these patients.