title: Lumbar stenosis.
abstract: Lumbar stenosis continues to be inadequately appreciated as a major cause of sciatica, neurogenic claudication, and cauda equina syndrome. Review of the nineteenth-century medical literature reveals articles on narrow canal syndrome in achondroplastic dwarfs; connection to the clinical presentation of developmental spinal stenosis awaited the middle decades of the twentieth century. Appropriate neurosurgical intervention has evolved with a better understanding of the pathophysiologic changes that take place with this disorder and the introduction of myelography, computerized tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Malis
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011859:Radiography; D013115:Spinal Canal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D013130:Spinal Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging