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Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Joint Fusion

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The sacroiliac joint is often an overlooked cause for low back pain. It is estimated that around 15–20 % of low back pain is caused by sacroiliac joint dysfunction [3, 22, 23]. This number may be even higher in patients with a history of lumbosacral fusion surgery, a history of posterior iliac crest bone graft harvesting, or in patients with sustained low back pain after spine surgery (“failed back syndrome”) [6, 11, 15, 19, 24].

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Yi Lu M.D., Ph.D. & Steven Wu

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  1. Dept. of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

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  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Yi Lu

  3. Department of Orthopaedics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    D. Greg Anderson

  4. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Praveen V. Mummaneni

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Lu, Y., Wu, S. (2014). Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Joint Fusion. In: Wang, M., Lu, Y., Anderson, D., Mummaneni, P. (eds) Minimally Invasive Spinal Deformity Surgery. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1407-0_32

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