Clinical effect evaluation and correlation between preoperative imaging parameters and clinical effect of endoscopic Transforaminal decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis

Table 3 Correlation analysis between sex and CT/MRI parameters

	r	P
Bony vertebral canal area by CT measurement	− 0.102	0.349
Cross-sectional area of the dural sac by MRI measurement	−0.607	0.538
Nerve root canal bony area by CT measurement	−0.025	0.820
Yellow ligament thickness by MRI measurement	0.015	0.893
Real spinal canal area by CT measurement	0.188	0.081
Nerve root canal real area by CT measurement	0.080	0.463
Vertebral canal sagittal diameter by CT measurement	−0.170	0.115
Distance between the articular joints by CT measurement	0.047	0.667
Soft tissue invasion ratio of the vertebral canal	−0.211	0.049
Invasion ratio of the nerve root canal	−0.215	0.045

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