Healio

Prone transpsoas direct lateral lumbar fusion may improve operative efficiency

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The desire for a minimally invasive technique to restore intervertebral disc height for indirect decompression ...
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Clarification provided on ACDF codes, difference between laminectomy codes

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Here are a few questions about spine surgery coding that recently came to the attention of KarenZupko & ...
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Lumbar Spine: Common Pathology and Interventions

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is any narrowing in the lumbar spinal canal or lateral recess. It can be developmental, congenital, or acquired. This article discusses acquired degenerative lumbar spinal ...
Medscape

Quantitative Radiologic Criteria for the Diagnosis of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

The search in Medline and Embase, described as step one, yielded, after excluding duplicates, 170 publications. After reading title and abstract 103 papers were excluded. For the remaining 67 ...
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Lidocaine with transforaminal epidural steroid injection safe & effective for lumbar decompression: 3 study findings

A study in Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery analyzed the positive predictive value of diagnostic 1 percent lidocaine containing transforaminal epidural steroid injections after outpatient ...