Abstract
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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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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