Comparative study between coflex and x-stop interspinous spacers for treatment of mild to moderate lumbar canal stenosis /
دراسه مقارنه بين الكوفلكس والاكس ستب كمباعد ديناميكى بين الفقرات القطنية لعلاج ضيق القناه الشوكيه القطنيه البسيطه والمتوسطه
Mohammed Saad Alhassanin Alfikey ; Supervised Esam Rashad Algahawy , Mohamed Mohamed Mohi Aldin Albasiony , Ahmed Salah Aldin Hassan Abdalaty
- Cairo : Mohammed Saad Alhassanin Alfikey , 2014
- 117 P. : charts ; 25cm
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine- Department of Neurosurgery
of them (coflex and X-stop ) we concluded that in cases with coflex spacer there was significant improvement in low back pain and claudication distance and radiologically there was significant reduction in end plate angle , increase in posterior disc height ,decrease in anterior disc height and increase in foraminal height and width but in cases with X-stop there was significant improvement in low back pain and claudication distance and radiologically there was no significan t improvement in end plate improvement in end plate