However, the nerve root exiting below the L5 pedicle is markedly enlarged, filling the entire foramen. Biopsy demonstrated infiltration of the nerve roots by malignant lymphoma. It is important to ...

Study investigators found readmission rates did not increase when transforaminal endoscopic decompression procedures for lumbar foraminal and lateral recess stenosis were performed in outpatient ...

Sagittal and axial T2-weighted images showing grade 1 anterolisthesis of L4 on L5, foraminal, lateral recess and ... Electrocautery is avoided through the abdominal wall musculature to avoid nerve ...

Surgeons perform a partial medial facetectomy, and then expose the L4-L5 nerve roots and decompress these. A hook is used to control the sufficient neural decompression at level L4-5 and L3-4.

The L5 and S1 nerve roots are most commonly implicated in radicular pain. Typically, involvement of the L5 nerve root causes back pain that radiates down the lateral aspect of the leg to the top ...

The September issue of Neurosurgical Focus looks at anterior approaches to thoracolumbar spinal surgery. According to the topic editors, Paul Park, Juan Uribe, Tokumi Kanemura, and Dean Chou, "The ...