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Three-dimensional Navigation-guided, Prone, Single-position, Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion Technique
Published on: July 15, 2021
Prone-lateral access to the lumbar spine: single-level corpectomy with approach discussion
Lauren E Stone1, Luis Daniel Diaz-Aguilar1, David Rafael Santiago-Dieppa1
1Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Diego, California.
Abstract:
The lateral lumbar interbody fusion has evolved as newly envisioned access corridors become feasible with technological advances. Prone lateral access has evolved as a single-access approach to combine the benefits of minimally invasive surgery with direct and indirect decompression of the neural elements with synergistic anterior and posterior column correction. In this video, the authors discuss the pearls, pitfalls, and adjuvant technologies they use in a high-volume prone lateral center via case demonstration of a prone lateral corpectomy. The video can be found here: https://stream.cadmore.media/r10.3171/2022.3.FOCVID2216.

