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The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 2 Preoperative clinical presentation

From: Decompressive laminectomy with instrumented posterolateral fusion for degenerative lumbar disease in elderly, is it safe and beneficial?

Symptoms

Number and percentage of patients

Duration of symptoms (Range in months)

Duration of symptoms (mean± SD)

LBP

35 (100%)

3 – 36 m

21.7±11.1 m

Radiculopathy

27 (77.1%)

1 – 30 m

11.1±7.9 m

Neurogenic claudication

21 (60%)

1 – 24 m

7.7±5.2 m

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