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Outcome of single level instrumented posterior lumbar interbody fusion using corticocancellous laminectomy bone chips
Author(s) -
Sanganagouda Patil,
Saurabh Rawall,
Premik Nagad,
Bhavin Shial,
Uday Pawar,
Abhay Nene
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5413.87117
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , laminectomy , spondylolisthesis , spinal fusion , lumbar , decompression , radiography , spinal canal , sagittal plane , back pain , reduction (mathematics) , iliac crest , radiology , spinal cord , alternative medicine , geometry , mathematics , pathology , psychiatry
Interbody fusion surgery has been considered by many to be a treatment of choice for instability in lumbar degenerative disc disease. A posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) has the advantages of spinal canal decompression, anterior column reconstruction, and reduction of the sagittal slips from a single posterior approach. The PLIF using double cage was a standard practice till many studies reported comparable results and lesser complications with single cage. Iliac crest was considered as an appropriate source of bone graft until comparable spinal fusion rates using local bone graft and cage emerged. Till date, there has been no report of corticocancellous laminectomy bone chips alone being used for spinal fusion. In this paper, we present radiologic results of single level instrumented PLIF, where in only corticocancellous laminectomy bone chips were used as a fusion device.

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