title: [Narrow lumbar canal].
abstract: The diagnosis of spinal stenosis can be strongly suspected when the following symptoms are present: limbs neuralgias with a poorly defined location, paresthesias in several dermatomas neurogenic intermittent claudication. Myelography coupled with scan yields the best information about morphology, levels of stenosis and narrowing factors, bone bridges ligaments and discal structures. If surgery is decided after failure of medical treatment to improve the patient's condition, the choice will be best guided by the myeloscan analysis.
authors.affiliation: CHRU, service de rhumatologie, Bois-Guillaume.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Deshayes
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Louvel
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009192:Myelography; D013130:Spinal Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Le canal lombaire étroit.