Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Diagnosis and Treatment
Lumbar spinal stenosis (PSS) is a combination of clinical symptoms, often neurogenic intermittent claudication, and narrowing of the spinal canal according to spondylography, computer or magnetic resonance imaging. After diagnosis, patients undergo, as a rule, conservative treatment and only in the absence of an effect from it, they are offered surgical treatment. To date, despite the widespread introduction of high-tech types of research, there are significant difficulties in diagnosing and choosing the correct adequate indications for surgical intervention and, as a result, a significant percentage of postoperative complications. Since the late 1970s, the neurosurgical operating methods of intraoperative neuromonitoring have been actively introduced to minimize the possible intraoperative complications and improve the results of surgical treatment of PSS.