Zhongguo gu shang = China journal of orthopaedics and traumatology
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To evaluate clinical result of the micro-decompression procedure for lumbar spinal stenosis. ⋯ Operative treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis is focused at the areas causing symptomatic neural root compression rather than prophylactic decompression at areas of nonsymptomatic disease. The micro-decompression procedures are more likely to be well tolerated by older patients.