The Role of Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Deposition in the Postoperative Outcome of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Patients.

Conclusions: Surgical intervention resulted in good clinical outcomes in SCPPD patients. As per our findings, total removal of CPPinvolved tissue is unnecessary. As such, surgery should be performed as indicated according to clinical presentation without considering the presence of CPPD. PMID: 31352727 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Asian Spine Journal - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research