Comparison of Clinical and Radiologic Results of Mini-Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion and Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion Indirect Decompression for Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis.

Conclusions: Postoperative clinical results were equally favorable for both procedures; however, in comparison with mini-open TLIF, less blood loss and greater correction of DH were observed in XLIF. PMID: 29713419 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29713419?dopt=Abstract

Source: Asian Spine Journal - May 3, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research