INTRODUCTION Management of degenerative lumbosacral spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis is still controversial. Surgery is widely used, as well as non-surgical treatment. AIM To evaluate the clinical results and functional outcome after operative treatment in Grade II and III lumbar spine spondylolisthesis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twelve patients with symptoms and image-confirmed degenerati...

Fifty patients who had spinal stenosis associated with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis were prospectively studied clinically and radiographically to determine ifconcomitant intertransverse-process arthrodesis provided better results than decompressive laminectomy alone. There were thirty-six women and fourteen men. The mean age of the twenty-five patients who had had an arthrodesis was 63...

Lateral Spondylolisthesis is seen as a consequence of degenerative disc disease. It occurs primarily in the lumbar spine, and is often associated with adult degenerative scoliosis. When it occurs, it can result in severe back pain from disc instability and radicular leg pain from nerve root compression [1-6]. This is a descriptive study of a series of 32 patients with Lateral Lumbar Spondylolis...

Background: Lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis (LDS) is a degenerative slippage of the lumbar vertebrae. We aimed to evaluate the surgical outcome of degenerative spondylolisthesis with neural decompression, pedicular screw fixation, reduction, and posterolateral fusion.Methods: This before-after study was carried out on 45 patients (37 female and 8 male) with LDS operated from August 2008 t...

A critical review was made of the CT findings in 300 patients who underwent axial CT of the lumbar spine in which spondylolysis and/or spondylolisthesis had been diagnosed. Findings indicate that axial CT is superior to conventional radiographs in several areas: (1) for consistent and accurate demonstration of spondylolysis, (2) for disclosing the various changes in the apophyseal joints associ...

STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional imaging study. PURPOSE The objective was to assess the degree of degeneration and the associated factors through imaging studies of the lesion segment and the adjacent superior and inferior segments of isthmic and degenerative spondylolisthesis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Few articles existed for degeneration and related factors in isthmic and degenerative spondyl...