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The Extreme Lateral Minimally Invasive Approach to Pure Degenerative Lumbar Disk Disease

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Although significant technical progress has been made in spine surgery over the last decade, interbody fusion techniques for degenerative disk disease (DDD) are still a controversial indication in the current literature [1–7]. Good clinical results have been reported in several randomized clinical trials for a variety of fusion procedures in the treatment of lumbar DDD, with visual analog scale (VAS) improvement of 22–77 % and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) improvement of 19–79 % [7, 8].

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  1. Neurosurgery Division, Department of NESMOS, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

    Antonino Raco

  2. Neurosurgery Division, Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Massimo Miscusi MD PhD

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  2. Spine Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical Center Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA

    Andrew A. Sama

  3. Dept. of Neurosurgery, University of South Florida Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA

    Juan S. Uribe

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Raco, A., Miscusi, M. (2017). The Extreme Lateral Minimally Invasive Approach to Pure Degenerative Lumbar Disk Disease. In: Wang, M., Sama, A., Uribe, J. (eds) Lateral Access Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28320-3_18

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