CLINICAL RESEARCH e-ISSN 1643-3750 © Med Sci Monit, 2015; 21: 3652-3657 DOI: 10.12659/MSM.894890

Minimally Invasive Unilateral vs. Bilateral Pedicle Screw Fixation and Lumbar Interbody Fusion in Treatment of Multi-Segment Lumbar Degenerative Disorders

Received: 2015.06.03 Accepted: 2015.07.08 Published: 2015.11.25

Authors’ ABEF Contribution: Xiaoyang Liu Study Design  A BD Guangrun Li Data Collection  B BC Jiefeng Wang Statistical Analysis  C Data Interpretation  CE D Heqing Zhang Manuscript Preparation  E Literature Search  F Funds Collection  G



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Department of Spine Surgery, Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, Shandong, P.R. China

Xiaoyang Liu, e-mail: [email protected] Departmental sources

The choice for instrumentation with minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) in treatment of degenerative lumbar disorders (DLD) remains controversial. The goal of this study was to investigate clinical outcomes in consecutive patients with multi-segment DLD treated with unilateral pedicle screw (UPS) vs. bilateral pedicle screw (BPS) instrumented TLIF. Eighty-four consecutive patients who had multi-level MIS-TLIF were retrospectively reviewed. All data were collected to compare the clinical outcomes between the 2 groups. Both groups showed similar clinical function scores in VAS and ODI. The two groups differed significantly in operative time (P

Minimally Invasive Unilateral vs. Bilateral Pedicle Screw Fixation and Lumbar Interbody Fusion in Treatment of Multi-Segment Lumbar Degenerative Disorders.

BACKGROUND The choice for instrumentation with minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) in treatment of degenerative lumba...
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