Traditionally, the surgical management of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis consisted of decompressive laminectomy alone. In 1985, Lombardi and colleagues [7] reported the results of 47 ...

Management of degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis is controversial. Surgery is widely used, but its effectiveness in comparison with that of nonsurgical treatment has not been ...

Degenerative spondylolisthesis ... such as osteoporosis or a spinal tumor. Postsurgical spondylolisthesis: Also called iatrogenic spondylolisthesis, this happens when a vertebra slips out of ...

In patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis, it is uncertain whether decompression surgery alone is noninferior to decompression with instrumented fusion.

In a paper published in JOR Spine, researchers looked at patients with and without lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis to ...

Degenerative spondylolisthesis ... pars defects or fractures -- abnormalities in the part of the bone in the back of the spine that keeps the joints in place -- may have their bones slip at ...

Back pain may become worse if a person ... There are two main types of spondylolisthesis: degenerative spondylolisthesis and spondylolytic spondylolisthesis. Degenerative spondylolisthesis occurs ...

Study: Gut microbiome dysbiosis is associated with lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis in symptomatic patients. Image Credit: BELL KA PANG/Shutterstock.com In a recent study published in The ...

The clinical presentation of degenerative spondylolisthesis is dependent upon the concomitant presence of spinal stenosis at the slip level. Patients who present only with low back pain or who ...