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Could spinal stenosis affect the brain?
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No: Spinal stenosis is a diagnosis related to the spinal canal and the neural elements found within when there is too narrow a canal causing pressure on these neural structures and the brain is not one of those structures found outside its own bony cover, the skull's cranium.
Answered 2/10/2014
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Not typically: Spinal stenosis is a narrowing or pinching if the nerve canal, it can usually affect things spine related, but not really brain related.
Answered 6/4/2017
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