Multilevel Decompression Surgery for Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Canal Stenosis Is Similarly Effective With Single-level Decompression Surgery

Conclusions. Despite the longer surgical time and a larger volume of estimated blood loss, multilevel decompression surgery showed similar improvement to that of single-level surgery in terms of recovery of PROs and frequency of revision surgery. Multilevel decompression surgery provides good clinical outcomes with acceptable complication and revision rates when selecting appropriate patient and spinal levels.
Source: Spine - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Clinical Case Series Source Type: research