Copyright © Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Unauth ABSTRACT Anterior and posterior approaches for lumbar interbody fusion can be associated with a number of serious complications. Interest in minimally invasive approaches for interbody fusion has increased in recent years, with the goal of decreasing complications and patient morbidity. The goal of minimally invasive spine surgery is to decrease...

Copyright: © 2014 He Q. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF) was first introduced by Pimenta in 2001 [1] and developed in 2003. It is a minimally invasive...

RATIONALE To describe a novel indication for a method through minimally invasive extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF) in combination with percutaneous pedicle screwsfixation in the treatment of lumbar tuberculosis (TB) in an elderly patient, and its clinical efficacy and feasibility. Lumbar TB is a destructive form of TB. Antituberculous treatment should be started as early as possible. In s...

Extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF) (NuVasive Inc., San Diego, CA) and direct lateral interbody fusion (DLIF) (Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Memphis, TN) are novel minimally invasive transpsoas approaches to the lumbar spine for performing interbody fusions. Advantages of interbody fusions over posterolateral fusion have been detailed and include theoretically higher fusion rates, the possibilit...

we report the case of a 73-year-old female with severe degenerative scoliosis and back and leg pain that wassuccessfully treated with stand- alone cages via an extreme lateral transpsoas approach. this patient had declinedopen surgery and instrumentation due to her advanced age concerns about potential side effects.

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. PURPOSE To compare intraoperative endplate injury cases and no injury cases in consecutive series and to identify predisposing factors for intraoperative endplate injury. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Unintended endplate violation and subsequent cage subsidence is an intraoperative complication of extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF). It is still unknown whethe...

Introduction Studies document rod fracture in pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) settings where disk spaces were preserved above or adjacent to the PSO. This study compares the multidirectional bending rigidity and fatigue life of PSO segments with or without interbody support. Methods Twelve specimens received bilateral T12-S1 posterior fixation and L3 PSO. Six received extreme lateral interb...

OBJECTIVES We explored the efficacy of minimal invasive surgery including one-stage debridement and intervertebral fusion through extreme lateral channel (XLIF) combined with lateral or percutaneous posterior pedicle screw fixation for the treatment of lumbar spine tuberculosis. METHODS Twenty two patients with lumbar tuberculosis who underwent surgery with XLIF technique and internal fixatio...