Background This is a retrospective review of 25 patients with severe lumbar nerve root
compression undergoing multilevel anterior retroperitoneal lumbar interbody fusion and …

Introduction. The use of extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF) and other lateral access
surgery is rapidly increasing in popularity. However, limited data is available regarding its …

Extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF; NuVasive Inc., San Diego, CA, USA) is a minimally
invasive lateral transpsoas approach to the thoracolumbar spine. Though the procedure is …

Background Surgical treatment of adult degenerative scoliosis (DS) always remains a
challenge and often necessitates complex multilevel surgery via traditional open …

Extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF) has gained popularity for use in degenerative
stenosis and other conditions of the lumbar spine. The XLIF approach affords an ability to …

Extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF) has been widely used for minimally invasive anterior
lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF), but an approach to L5-S1 is difficult because of the iliac …

Purpose To review the literature on the use of extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF) in adult
spinal deformity, to discuss on its limits and advantages and to propose a guide to surgical …

Study Design. Prospective nonrandomized clinical study on the decompressive effect of the
extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF) procedure. Objective. This study evaluates the results …

The incidence of adjacent level disease, in patients who have undergone a previous open
posterior pedicle screw and rod instrumented fusion, is reported to be as high as 30% at 5 …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) is highly effective as a
sagittal correction approach in patients with adult spinal deformity, but relevant issues such …