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Our goal was to assess the relationship between improvement shown on epidurogram and subjective patient response to adhesiolysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Methods.\u2002For this prospective study, 78 patients with degenerative LSS were enrolled. Each subject underwent magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine, with all therapeutic procedures conducted in the operating room. Two weeks later, a second epidurography was performed. Second epidurography was conducted to assess any change in epidural filling defects. Outcome measures were obtained using the visual analogue scale (VAS) score at two weeks, one month, and three months post-treatment.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Results.\u2002All of the 78 study participants (mean age = 60.9 years, range = 34\u201385 years) displayed epidural filling defects at baseline. After percutaneous adhesiolysis, epidurographic filling defects were absent in 73% of patients. In the presence or absence of filling defects, mean VAS scores were 5.2 and 4.5, respectively, at two weeks\u2019 follow-up. No significant correlation between postprocedural VAS score and status of filling defects (yes or no) was evident during the three-month follow-up period.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Conclusion.\u2002In patients with LSS, epidurographic findings following percutaneous epidural adhesiolysis failed to correlate with level of pain reduction achieved.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/pm\/pnw244","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,9,20]],"date-time":"2016-09-20T20:38:26Z","timestamp":1474403906000},"page":"842-845","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Epidurographic Findings Following Percutaneous Epidural Adhesiolysis Failed to Correlate with Level of Pain Reduction in Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Chan","family":"Hong Park","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"*Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Spine Health Wooridul Hospital, Daegu, South 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