Surgeons from the Instituto de Patologia da Coluna in Sao Paulo, Brazil have found that an innovative minimally invasive surgical procedure performed to achieve two-level axial lumbar interbody fusion produced immediate successful ...
Jul 20, 2012
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(HealthDay) -- A two-dimensional (2D) fluoroscopic technique is safe for percutaneous placement of pedicle screws during transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF), with a pedicle breach rate of 6.2 percent, according ...
Jun 21, 2012
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(HealthDay) -- For patients who undergo instrumented spinal fusion, the rates of infection are higher among those who receive posterior lumbar interbody fusion compared with those who receive posterior or posterolateral fusion, ...
May 21, 2012
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(HealthDay) -- For patients with degenerative lumbar diseases, the unilateral pedicle screw (PS) instrumented transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) procedure results in shorter operative time, less blood loss, and ...
Apr 9, 2012
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