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Radiographic evaluation of indirect decompression of mini-open anterior retroperitoneal lumbar interbody fusion: oblique lateral interbody fusion for degenerated lumbar spondylolisthesis

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Purpose

Extreme lateral interbody fusion provides minimally invasive treatment of spinal deformity, but complications including nerve and psoas muscle injury have been noted. To avoid nerve injury, mini-open anterior retroperitoneal lumbar interbody fusion methods using an approach between the aorta and psoas, such as oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) have been applied. OLIF with percutaneous pedicle screws without posterior decompression can indirectly decompress the spinal canal in lumbar degenerated spondylolisthesis. In the current study, we examined the radiographic and clinical efficacy of OLIF for lumbar degenerated spondylolisthesis.

Methods

We assessed 20 patients with lumbar degenerated spondylolisthesis who underwent OLIF and percutaneous pedicle screw fixation without posterior laminectomy. MR and CT images and clinical symptoms were evaluated before and 6 months after surgery. Cross sections of the spinal canal were evaluated with MRI, and disk height, cross-sectional areas of intervertebral foramina, and degree of upper vertebral slip were evaluated with CT. Clinical symptoms including low back pain, leg pain, and lower extremity numbness were evaluated using a visual analog scale and the Oswestry Disability Index before and 6 months after surgery.

Results

After surgery, significant increases in axial and sagittal spinal canal diameter (12 and 32 %), spinal canal area (19 %), disk height (61 %), and intervertebral foramen areas (21 % on the right side, 39 % on the left), and significant decrease of upper vertebral slip (−9 %) were found (P < 0.05). Low back pain, leg pain, and lower extremity numbness were significantly reduced compared with before surgery (P < 0.05).

Conclusions

Significant improvements in disk height and spinal canal area were found after surgery. Bulging of disks was reduced through correction, and stretching the yellow ligament may have decompressed the spinal canal. Lumbar anterolateral fusion without laminectomy may be useful for lumbar spondylolisthesis with back and leg symptoms.

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    1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba, 260-8670, Japan

      Jun Sato, Seiji Ohtori, Sumihisa Orita, Kazuyo Yamauchi, Yawara Eguchi, Nobuyasu Ochiai, Kazuki Kuniyoshi, Yasuchika Aoki, Junichi Nakamura, Masayuki Miyagi, Miyako Suzuki, Gou Kubota, Kazuhide Inage, Takeshi Sainoh, Kazuki Fujimoto, Yasuhiro Shiga, Koki Abe, Hiroto Kanamoto, Gen Inoue & Kazuhisa Takahashi

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    J. Sato, S. Ohtori and S. Orita contributed equally to this work.

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    Sato, J., Ohtori, S., Orita, S. et al. Radiographic evaluation of indirect decompression of mini-open anterior retroperitoneal lumbar interbody fusion: oblique lateral interbody fusion for degenerated lumbar spondylolisthesis. Eur Spine J 26, 671–678 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-015-4170-0

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