%0 Journal Article
%T Wasting of Extensor Digitorum Brevis as a Decisive Preoperative Clinical Indicator of Lumbar Canal Stenosis: A Single-center Prospective Cohort Study
%A BM Kumar
%A S Munakomi
%J Archive of "Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research".
%D 2016
%R 10.4103/amhsr.amhsr_392_15
%X The dilemma in managing patients with low back ache lies in differentiating radiculopathy from lumbar canal stenosis. This has a huge bearing in patients being planned for surgical intervention as underperforming leads to failed back syndrome whereas over-doing leads to instability. There still remains a loophole in clinically diagnosing lumbar canal stenosis
%K Extensor digitorum brevis
%K Lumbar canal
%K Stenosis
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414442/