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Table 2 Bibliographic analysis of clinical outcome studies with x-stop insertion for spinal stenosis

From: Surgical treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis with microdecompression and interspinous distraction device insertion. A case series

Study

# of pts

Type ofsurgery

f-u time(months)

Mean outcomes improvementat last follow-up

Patient satisfaction domainof ZCQ (% of pts)

Kondrashov et al (JSDT 2006) [14]

18

x-stop only

51

29 (ODI)

not reported

Shidiqui et al (Spine 2007) [22]

24

x-stop only

12

11 (ODI)

71

Zucherman et al (Spine 2005) [8]

93

x-stop only

24

45.4% (ZCQ symptom severity domain)

73.1

Brussee et al (Eur Spine J 2008) [23]

65

x-stop only

12

48.4% (ZCQ walking ability)

74.2

Kuchta et al (Eur Spine J 2009) [20]

175

x-stop only

24

12 (ODI)

not reported

Ploumis et al

22

x-stop plusdecompression

27.4

30 (ODI)

90.9