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Stenosis and spinal instability due to lumbar degenerative disease is associated with aging and often requires surgical treatment to provide decompression, clinical improvement and stabilization. We present a 78-yo female patient, with neurological claudication, treated with laminectomy of L4 and fusion at t L4-L5 with screws and rods. With this case we would like to illustrate the decision making process in a patient with symptomatic stenosis and pathological hypermobility requiring fusion after the decompression. We discuss the indications and evidence in favor of fusion in cases where instability is manifest.
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Magras, I., Athanasiou, A., Magra, V. (2019). Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Requiring Decompression and Fusion. In: Meyer, B., Rauschmann, M. (eds) Spine Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98875-7_10
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