TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wipplinger, Christoph
AU  - Melcher, Carolin
AU  - Hernandez, R. Nick
AU  - Lener, Sara
AU  - Navarro-Ramirez, Rodrigo
AU  - Kirnaz, Sertac
AU  - Schmidt, Franziska Anna
AU  - Kim, Eliana
AU  - Härtl, Roger
PY  - 2018
TI  - “One and a half” minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: single level transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion with adjacent segment unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression for spondylolisthesis with bisegmental stenosis
JF  - Journal of Spine Surgery; Vol 4, No 4 (December 24, 2018): Journal of Spine Surgery
Y2  - 2018
KW  - 
N2  - Symptomatic lumbar spondylolisthesis is commonly accompanied by spinal stenosis in multiple segments. These pathologies are routinely treated by multilevel decompression and instrumented fusion. However, it was hypothesized that a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) fusion in the unstable segment combined with a unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression (ULBD) in the adjacent stenotic segment is a biomechanically feasible alternative to a two-level fusion and superior to open laminectomy adjacent to a fused segment. This concept has demonstrated success in a recently published biomechanical cadaver study performed by our group. The present article offers a detailed step by step technical description for an MIS-TLIF (transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion) with adjacent ULBD.
UR  - https://jss.amegroups.org/article/view/4341