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Interspinous Posterior Devices IPD: A Miracle Cure for the Lumbar Spinal Stenosis?

Alessandro Landi^* and Roberto Delfini

Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

*Corresponding Author:

Alessandro Landi
Department of Neurology and Psychiatry
Div. Neurosurgery, University of Rome Sapienza
Viale del Policlinico 155, 00100 Rome, Italy
Tel: +390649979105
E-mail: [email protected]

Received date: October 26, 2013; Accepted date: January 20, 2014; Published date: February 02, 2014

Citation: Landi A, Delfini R (2014) Interspinous Posterior Devices IPD: A Miracle Cure for the Lumbar Spinal Stenosis? Surgery Curr Res 4:162. doi: 10.4172/2161-1076.1000162

Copyright: © 2014 Landi A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Interspinous Posterior Device (IPD) is a term used to identify a relatively recent group of implants used to treat lumbar spine stenosis with the presumed aim of a dynamic motion control systems. In the last 10 years there was a very large use of these implants. Despite this, no long-term clinical follow-up are available. In the literature is evident the high rate of reoperation, recurrence of symptoms and progression of degenerative changes. But his main question is: if these devices are effectively a miracle cure for the common problem of the lumbar spinal stenosis, why actually the use of IPD remains extremely controversial and should be investigated further?