Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Clinical disorders and presenting symptoms of the final cohort, operated levels of the surgical cohort, Swiss Spinal Stenosis Questionnaire for the final cohort and results of the team rating of the final cohort

From: Assessing the real benefits of surgery for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis without instability and spondylolisthesis: a single surgeon experience with a mean 8-year follow-up

Clinical disorders (%)
Low back pain	88.8
Neurogenic claudication	74
Posture trunk forward	55
Lower limbs weakness	39
Monoradicular syndrome	26
Deficits of motion	22.2
Pluriradicular syndrome	16.6
Sensory disturbances	16.6

	Patients
Laminectomy level
L1–L2	2
L2–L3	3
L3–L4	9
L4–L5	16
L3–L4/L4–L5	28
L2–L3/L3–L4/L4–L5	12
L3–L4/L4–L5/L5–S1	8
SSSQ results
Outcome
Surgical cohort
Good	48 (61.5%)
Moderate	13 (16.7%)
Poor	17 (21.8%)
Non-surgical cohort
Good	7 (20.6%)
Moderate	10 (29.4%)
Poor	17 (50.0%)
Team rating
Results
Surgical cohort
Improved	54 (69.2%)
Unchanged	9 (11.5%)
Worsened	15 (19.3%)
Non-surgical cohort
Improved	8 (23.5%)
Unchanged	12 (35.2%)
Worsened	15 (44.1%)

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