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Three-dimensional Navigation-guided, Prone, Single-position, Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion Technique
Published on: July 15, 2021
How I do it: dual operation channels percutaneous endoscopic far-lateral transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
Qingqing Xiao1, Ji Wu1, Fuming Chu1
1Neck-Shoulder and Lumbocrural Pain Division 1, Sichuan Province Orthopedic Hospital, Chengdu, 610041, China.
Background:
The current surgical procedure of interbody fusion in the lumbar spine has several limitations including low efficiency, potential endplate damage, overdose radiation exposure, and failure of fusion.
Methods:
Through the endoscopic operating channel, we efficiently removed the superior and inferior articular processes and decompressed the ligamentum flavum. Another operating channel was established under endoscopic monitoring to excise the annulus fibrosus, remove the cartilaginous endplate using open instruments, perform interbody bone grafting, and place a non-expandable polyetheretherketone open surgical fusion cage.
Conclusion:
Lumbar interbody fusion was performed successfully using a far-lateral transforaminal approach combined with dual operation channels of percutaneous endoscopic-assisted technique.
