Superior Facet Joint Violations in Single Level Minimally Invasive and Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Comparative Study.

Conclusions: This study demonstrated that the incidence of iatrogenic SFV is greater in MIS-TLIF than in OPEN-TLIF at a single lower lumbar level. MIS-TLIF is effective for lumbar degenerative disease; however, the incidence of iatrogenic SFV was higher. Patient and surgical factors must be considered to protect the facet joints in both TLIF methods to avoid ASD. PMID: 31575108 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Asian Spine Journal - October 4, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research