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Can congenital spinal stenosis be fixed?
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Yes: Congenital stenosis may not cause any symptoms, may respond it terms of symptom relief to epidural steroids and can only be structurally fixed by surgery, typically laminectomy.
Answered 11/25/2013
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Yes: Yes, typically a lumbar decompression is a surgical procedure that can be dine to "fix" congenital spinal stenosis.
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