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Lumbar disc arthroplasty is gaining popularity in the spinal surgery community for many reasons, the first being to avoid spinal fusion, which, even with evidence of good and solid clinical outcomes, is a surgical procedure that abolishes the physiological movement of the joints of the spine. Spinal fusion has always been accepted as a “surgical gold standard,” but complication rates up to 70 % have been reported, and adjacent segment alterations vary from 31 to 66 % of cases [1, 2].
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Balsano, M. (2014). Lumbar Nucleus Replacement. In: Menchetti, P. (eds) Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Lumbar Spine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5280-4_11
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