Thalidomide: Still an important second-line treatment in refractory cutaneous lupus erythematosus?
Because of high risk of polyneuropathy, low-dose thalidomide should be used and long-term therapy should be avoided. Therefore, it should be recommended to combine thalidomide with other treatments for CLE.
Our study thus indicates that preoperative degenerative spondylolisthesis does not worsen the outcome of patients with lumbar stenosis undergoing unilateral laminotomy with bilateral decompression. These results suggest that lumbar fusion is often unnecessary in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis and lumbar stenosis if the posterior decompression technique is unilateral laminotomy with bilateral decompression.