Tredway Trent L
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, 1959 Northeast Pacific Street, PO Box 356470, Seattle, WA 98195-6470, USA.
Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2006 Oct;17(4):467-76. doi: 10.1016/j.nec.2006.06.003.
With the increasing elderly population, the number of patients presenting with symptoms secondary to lumbar stenosis can be expected to increase accordingly. Therefore, treatment of this disease process should become more prevalent, and the minimally invasive techniques offer another treatment option. As surgeons become more experienced in minimally invasive techniques, the reported advantages of the minimal access surgery, including reduction in soft tissue injury, less blood loss, shorter hospitalization, and faster recovery, should make this an attractive alternative to traditional open surgery. Continuing efforts in the minimally invasive field can be expected to yield new and potentially less invasive as well as possibly more efficacious treatment options in the future.
随着老年人口的增加，因腰椎管狭窄继发症状就诊的患者数量预计也会相应增加。因此，对这一疾病过程的治疗应会变得更为普遍，而微创技术提供了另一种治疗选择。随着外科医生在微创技术方面经验日益丰富，据报道的微创外科手术优势，包括软组织损伤减少、失血更少、住院时间缩短以及恢复更快，应会使其成为传统开放手术的一个有吸引力的替代方案。预计在微创领域持续的努力未来会产生新的、可能侵入性更小且或许更有效的治疗选择。
