A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Fusion Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
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- 14 April 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 374 (15), 1413-1423
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1513721
Abstract
The efficacy of fusion surgery in addition to decompression surgery in patients who have lumbar spinal stenosis, with or without degenerative spondylolisthesis, has not been substantiated in controlled trials.Keywords
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