• Comparison of 3 Different Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial 

      Hermansen, Erland; Austevoll, Ivar Magne; Hellum, Christian; Storheim, Kjersti; Myklebust, Tor Åge; Aaen, Jørn Ståle; Banitalebi, Hasan; Anvar, Masoud D; Rekeland, Frode; Brox, Jens Ivar; Franssen, Eric; Weber, Clemens; Solberg, Tore; Furunes, Håvard; Grundnes, Oliver; Brisby, Helena; Indrekvam, Kari (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Importance Operations for lumbar spinal stenosis is the most often performed surgical procedure in the adult lumbar spine. This study reports the clinical outcome of the 3 most commonly used minimally invasive posterior ...
    • Decompression alone or with fusion for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis (Nordsten-DS): five year follow-up of a randomised, multicentre, non-inferiority trial 

      Kgomotso, Eric Loratang; Hellum, Christian; Fagerland, Morten; Solberg, Tore; Brox, Jens Ivar; Storheim, Kjersti; Hermansen, Erland; Franssen, Eric; Weber, Clemens; Brisby, Helena; Algaard, Knut Robert Hector; Furunes, Håvard; Banitalebi, Hasan; Ljøstad, Inger; Indrekvam, Kari; Austevoll, Ivar Magne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-08)
      Objective To assess whether decompression alone is non-inferior to decompression with instrumented fusion five years after primary surgery in patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. Design Five year follow-up ...
    • Surgery in Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: Does fusion improve outcome in subgroups? A secondary analysis from a randomized trial (NORDSTEN trial) 

      Hellum, Christian; Rekeland, Frode Gurvin; Småstuen, Milada Cvancarova; Solberg, Tore; Hermansen, Erland; Storheim, Kjersti; Brox, Jens Ivar; Furunes, Håvard; Franssen, Eric; Weber, Clemens; Brisby, Helena; Grundnes, Oliver; Robert Hector Algaard, Knut; Bøker, Tordis; Banitalebi, Hasan; Indrekvam, Kari; Austevoll, Ivar Magne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      BACKGROUND CONTEXT Patients with spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis are treated surgically with decompression alone or decompression with fusion. However, there is debate regarding which subgroups of ...