Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy has become a representative minimally
invasive spine surgery for lumbar disc herniation. Due to the remarkable evolution in the …

The prevalence of lumbar spinal stenosis is approximately 9.3%, with people most
commonly affected in the sixth or seventh decade of life. Patients often have pain, cramping …

Spinal clinicians still rely on laborious workloads to conduct comprehensive assessments of
multiple spinal structures in MRIs, in order to detect abnormalities and discover possible …

Objectives To evaluate a deep learning model for automated and interpretable classification
of central canal stenosis, neural foraminal stenosis, and facet arthropathy from lumbar spine …

Abstract Background The Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) guideline for the
management of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) was first published in 2011. Since then, the …

Objective: To propose a new and practical MRI grading method for cervical neural foraminal
stenosis and to evaluate its reproducibility. Methods: We evaluated 50 patients (37 males …

Purpose This study aimed to investigate the association between the clinical symptoms of
central lumbar spinal stenosis (CLSS) and morphological parameters using magnetic …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a standard imaging modality for diagnosing spinal
stenosis, which is a common degenerative disorder in the elderly population. Standardized …

Objective The purpose of this study was to compare 2 alternative methods, the radiologic
Harrison Posterior Tangent Method (HPTM) and the nonradiologic Spinal Mouse (SM), to …

Pathogenesis-based diagnosis is a key step to prevent and control lumbar neural foraminal
stenosis (LNFS). It conducts both early diagnosis and comprehensive assessment by …