Acknowledgments We would like to express our gratitude to the body donors and their families, who, through their altruism, contributed to making this chapter possible. We thank BodyParts3D© The Database Center for Life Science licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1…
Background Present Practice There are several well-described approaches for interbody fusion, and these include posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF), transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF), lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF), and anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF). More recently, the oblique lumbar…
Background Revision lumbar spine surgery is predominantly associated with several distinct pathological processes resulting from an initial index surgery. For example, in the treatment of disc herniations, residual stenosis and recurrent disc herniations are well described in the literature. There…