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It is amazing to discover how little importance has been attached
to narrow lumbar canal syndromes up to now. Though H. VERBIEST gave
a very accurate description in 1949, the neurologist's and
neurosurgeon's preoccupations were mainly focused on discal
pathology, disregarding the problem of an exclusively bony origin
in canalar stenosis. A. WACKENHEIM and E. BABIN have the merit of
becoming aware of the impor tance and originality of this problem;
they organized in the beautiful surround ings of the Bischenberg
near Strasbourg, a postgraduate course, in which the most eminent
European specialists in this field participated. I am very honored
to have been asked to write the introduction to this mono graphy,
which contains all the studies reported and commented on during
this meeting. Before considering the problem from the various
radiologic points of view, it is in my opinion indispensable to
define the term "stenosis." We could not do so more accurately than
by assuming the definition proposed by A. WACKENHEIM and E. BABIN
and unanimously confirmed by all those who attented the session."
It was with great pleasure that I accepted Professor Wackenheim's
invitation to write the preface of this most interesting monograph.
During the international course on neuroradiology in Obernai,
organized by Professor Wackenheim in 1978, an entire day was
devoted to discussions about various aspects of stenosis of the
lumbar vertebral canal. As Professor Wackenheim and his group, in
particular Dr. E. Babin, had thorough. ly studied this field, it
was an excellent occasion for the exchange of views through
personal contact. Their support of basic views such as attributing
the cause of stenosis to a developmental disturbance of growth of
the neural element - the vertebral arc- and spontaneous agreement
about essentials in classification and nomenclature facili tated
this exchange. Reading the present monograph made me think back to
1949 when I wrote my first publication on stenosis of the lumbar
vertebral canal in a French volume that com memorated my teacher in
neurosurgery, Professor Clovis Vincent. During the following years
it was impossible to publish a more detailed paper on the subject
in international journals since their editorial boards did not
believe in its occurrence. My first English papers were published
in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (1954, 1955), but it was
only during the 1970s that this form of stenosis became more
universally recog nized."
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