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Radiographic Factors Affecting Lordosis Correction After Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion With Unilateral Facetectomy

CHRISTOPHER T. MARTIN, SHUO NIU, EMILY WHICKER, LAURA WARD and S. TIM YOON
International Journal of Spine Surgery October 2020, 14 (5) 681-686; DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/7099

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    Figure 1

    Radiographic measurements. Segmental lordosis (left, Cobb angle between red lines), disc space height (left, dotted black anteriorly and solid black posteriorly), segmental disc angle (right, Cobb angle between black lines), and Meyerding grading (right, green lines).

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    Comparison of the corrective effect of a TLIF cage on a segment with preoperative kyphosis (top) in comparison to a segment with preserved preoperative lordosis (bottom). The kyphotic segment experiences a substantial change in alignment, whereas the lordotic segment does not see much additional change, and both groups end up with a similar final alignment.

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Radiographic Factors Affecting Lordosis Correction After Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion With Unilateral Facetectomy
CHRISTOPHER T. MARTIN, SHUO NIU, EMILY WHICKER, LAURA WARD, S. TIM YOON
International Journal of Spine Surgery Oct 2020, 14 (5) 681-686; DOI: 10.14444/7099
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