Predisposing Factors for Intraoperative Endplate Injury of Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion.

CONCLUSIONS: Intraoperative endplate injury is correlated significantly with reduced BMD and taller cage height. Precise evaluation of bone quality and treatment for osteoporosis might be important and care should be taken not to choose excessively taller cage.
PMID: 27790319 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Asian Spine Journal - October 31, 2016 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research