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PubMed1991

Degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis. A prospective study comparing decompression with decompression and intertransverse process arthrodesis.

Fifty patients who had spinal stenosis associated with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis were prospectively studied clinically and radiographically to determine if concomitant 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 63.5 years and that of the twenty-five patients who had not had an arthrodesis, sixty-five years. The level of the operation was between the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae in forty-one patients and between the third and fourth lumbar vertebrae in nine patients. The patients were followed for a mean of three years (range, 2.4 to four years). In the patients who had had a concomitant arthrodesis, the results were significantly better with respect to relief of pain in the back and lower limbs.

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PubMed1984

Surgical management of Meniere's disease with endolymphatic sac decompression by wide bony decompression of the posterior fossa dura: technique and results.

The results of wide bony decompression of the posterior fossa in 49 consecutive individuals with idiopathic unilateral Meniere's disease are reported. These results are similar to many previously published series, 71% of individuals are free of vertigo and 86% have unchanged or improved hearing. Utilizing the classification proposed by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, 73% fell into Class A, B, or C with relief of vertigo. These results together with the low complication rate encourages us to consider surgery at an earlier date, hoping to stabilize hearing at a more useful level and to relieve vertigo.

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