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Among patients with lumbar spinal stenosis, with or without degenerative spondylolisthesis, decompression surgery plus fusion surgery did not result in better clinical outcomes at 2 years and 5 years than did decompression surgery alone. (Funded by an Uppsala institutional Avtal om Läkarutbildning och Forskning Agreement concerning Cooperation on Medical Education and Research and others; Swedish Spinal Stenosis Study ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01994512.).
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