The association between lower Hounsfield units on computed tomography and cage subsidence after lateral lumbar interbody fusion

Xi, Z; Mummaneni, PV; Wang, MH; Ruan, HB; Burch, S; Deviren, V; Clark, AJ; Berven, SH; Chou, DA

Xi, Z (corresponding author), Univ Calif San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA.

NEUROSURGICAL FOCUS, 2020; 49 (2):

Abstract

OBJECTIVE One vexing problem after lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) surgery is cage subsidence. Low bone mineral density (BMD) may contribute to......

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