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This paper deals only with X-ray diagnosis without contrast media of the so-called developmental narrow lumbar canal. Narrowings due to achondroplasia bone diseases, sequelae of spinal injuries, or surgery and spondylolisthesis are excluded. Three clinical pictures should lead to perform a plain X-ray examination of the lumbar spine in the search for a narrow lumbar canal: first, but not only, thanks to Verbiest [19], the well-known neurogenic intermittent claudication syndrom, but also, though less suggestive of the diagnosis, radicular pains, either uni- or bilateral; and lastly, the finding of disc herniation or of spondylosis does not preclude looking for an associated narrow canal revealed clinically by the above mentioned additional causes.
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Roulleau, J., Guillaume, J. (1980). Plain X-Ray Diagnosis of Developmental Narrow Lumbar Canal. In: The Narrow Lumbar Canal. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67347-4_2
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