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Surgery for spinal stenosis with degenerative spondylolisthesis

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By Anders Joelson
| The BMJ Verified
Editorials BMJ 2024; 386 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1628 Cite this as: BMJ 2024;386:q1628 Anders Joelson, consultant spine surgeon Department of Orthopaedics, Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden Correspondence to: A Joelson anders{at}joelson.se Trial provides evidence that decompression alone is not inferior to decompression with fusion Controversy continues about the best surgical option for patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis and concomitant degenerative...
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Associations between future health expectations and patient satisfaction after lumbar spine surgery: a longitudinal observational study of 9929 lumbar spine surgery procedures

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By Anders Joelson, Freyr Gauti Sigmundsson, Lilla Szigethy, Peter Wildeman
| BMJ Open Verified
Discussion In this paper, we found that patients, operated for the common lumbar spine diseases LSS or LDH, with negative future general health expectations preoperatively, were significantly less satisfied with treatment compared with patients with positive expectations with regard to future general health.
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Additional operation rates after surgery for degenerative spine diseases: minimum 10 years follow-up of 4705 patients in the national Swedish spine register

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By Anders Joelson, Freyr Gauti Sigmundsson
| BMJ Open Verified
Discussion In this paper, we report patterns of additional operations for degenerative lumbar spine diseases. We found that the additional operations were more common at adjacent levels for patients with LSS with DS treated with decompression and fusion whereas additional operations were more evenly distributed between the index level and the adjacent levels for DDD treated with fusion and LSS with and without DS treated with decompression only.
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