Correlation of Canal Dimension with Neurological Status and Surgical Outcome in Lumbar PIVD: A Recent Study

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with Neurological and Abstract Introduction: Symptomatic lumbar PIVD is major of disability and absteenism from work. The symptom of disc herniation depends upon multiple factors like level of disc, stage of disc, percent canal compromise by the disc etc. We report a prospec tive study which studies the correlation of spinal canal dimension with neurological status and its surgical outcome in lumbar PIVD. Methods and Material: Forty-one patients from May 2011 to Dec 2015 with mean follow up of one year were included in the study. The patients with cauda equina syndrome, persistent symptoms of back or leg pain for more than 6 weeks despite con servative treatment and the patients with progressive motor weakness, and leg symptoms were included in the study. Patients with age > 60 years, traumatic disc prolaspe.and spondylolethesis with disc prolapse were excluded from the study. Spinal canal dimension after