Spinal stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of the spinal canal or neural foramen that results in pressure on the spinal cord or nerve roots. Symptoms may...
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Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a medical condition in which the spinal canal narrows and compresses the nerves and blood vessels at the level of the lumbar...
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Cervical spinal stenosis is a bone disease involving the narrowing of the spinal canal at the level of the neck. It is frequently due to chronic degeneration...
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include: Pyloric stenosis (gastric outflow obstruction) Lumbar, cervical or thoracic spinal stenosis Subglottic stenosis (SGS) Tracheal stenosis Obstructive...
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Other common causes include disc herniation, spinal stenosis, trauma, and spinal tumors. Spinal stenosis results from bony growths (osteophytes) or thickened...
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Laminectomy (section For spinal stenosis)
clots, nerve injury, and spinal fluid leak. Most commonly, a laminectomy is performed to treat spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is the single most common...
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symptom of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) and describes intermittent leg pain from impingement of the nerves emanating from the spinal cord. Neurogenic means...
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Sciatica (section Spinal stenosis)
sciatica is due to a spinal disc herniation pressing on one of the lumbar or sacral nerve roots. Spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, piriformis syndrome...
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Some other spinal diseases include spinal muscular atrophy, ankylosing spondylitis, scoliosis, lumbar spinal stenosis, spina bifida, spinal tumors, osteoporosis...
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Friedreich's ataxia, spinal cord tumor, spinal stenosis etc.) Globally, it is expected there are around 40 to 80 cases of spinal cord injury per million population...
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