Salvage Strategy for Failed Spinal Fusion Surgery Using Lumbar Lateral Interbody Fusion technique: A Technical Note

Introduction: Failed spinal fusion surgery sometimes requires salvage surgery when symptomatic, especially with postsurgical decrease in intervertebral disc height followed by foraminal stenosis. For such cases, an anterior approach to lumbar lateral interbody fusion (LLIF) provides safe, direct acc...

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Main Authors: Sumihisa Orita, Takao Nakajima, Kenta Konno, Kazuhide Inage, Takeshi Sainoh, Kazuki Fujimoto, Jun Sato, Yasuhiro Shiga, Hirohito Kanamoto, Koki Abe, Masahiro Inoue, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Masaki Norimoto, Tomotaka Umimura, Yasuchika Aoki, Junichi Nakamura, Yusuke Matsuura, Go Kubota, Yawara Eguchi, Richard A. Hynes, Tsutomu Akazawa, Miyako Suzuki, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Seiji Ohtori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research 2018-01-01
Series:Spine Surgery and Related Research
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Online Access:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ssrr/2/1/2_2017-0035/_pdf/-char/en