Prospective analysis of functional outcome of single-stage surgical treatment for symptomatic tandem spinal stenosis

Conclusion: Symptomatic TSS can be safely managed by single-stage surgical intervention with good postoperative results or without a significant increase in complication rates. Single-stage surgical intervention helps to relieve the symptoms of both cervical and lumbar spinal cord compression, avoids the risk of repeated anesthesia, reduce the duration of surgery, repeated hospitalization hence, reducing the cost for hospitalization and also reducing the rehabilitation, recuperation time and early functional recovery justifies single-stage surgical intervention.
Source: Indian Journal of Orthopaedics - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Source Type: research