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The patient is taken to the Operating Room and after adequate general anesthesia, is placed prone on a four poster frame (Hall-Relton frame, Jackson table, etc.) with padding under the iliac crest and breast regions. Arms are abducted 20° and elbows flexed 110°. Padding was placed under the down legs and under the down arms. All bony prominences were well padded. The back was given a standard prep and draped free in the usual sterile manner.
A midline incision was made from L4 to S1. The incision was infiltrated with 1/500,000 epinephrine. Dissection was carried down through the subcutaneous tissues, down to the spinous processes of L4–S1.
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Weinstein, S.L. (2013). In Situ Fusion L5 to S1. In: Saghieh, S., Weinstein, S., Hoballah, J. (eds) Operative Dictations in Orthopedic Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7479-1_2
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