@article{JSS4341,
author = {Christoph Wipplinger and Carolin Melcher and R. Nick Hernandez and Sara Lener and Rodrigo Navarro-Ramirez and Sertac Kirnaz and Franziska Anna Schmidt and Eliana Kim and Roger Härtl},
title = {“One and a half” minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: single level transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion with adjacent segment unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression for spondylolisthesis with bisegmental stenosis},
journal = {Journal of Spine Surgery},
volume = {4},
number = {4},
year = {2018},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Symptomatic lumbar spondylolisthesis is commonly accompanied by spinal stenosis in multiple segments. These pathologies are routinely treated by multilevel decompression and instrumented fusion. However, it was hypothesized that a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) fusion in the unstable segment combined with a unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression (ULBD) in the adjacent stenotic segment is a biomechanically feasible alternative to a two-level fusion and superior to open laminectomy adjacent to a fused segment. This concept has demonstrated success in a recently published biomechanical cadaver study performed by our group. The present article offers a detailed step by step technical description for an MIS-TLIF (transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion) with adjacent ULBD.},
issn = {2414-4630}, url = {https://jss.amegroups.org/article/view/4341}
}