Minimally Invasive Retroperitoneal Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Video Assistance

Fluoroscopically Assisted Percutaneous Translaminar Facet Screw Fixation Following Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Technical Report

“…As a minimally invasive fusion method in spine surgery, ALIF has been performed through a mini-laparotomy or laparoscopically. [23][24][25][26][27] However, biomechanical studies of cageassisted ALIF have shown that the cages decreased the intervertebral movement in flexion and lateral bending, but no stabilization was achieved in either extension or axial rotation. [1][2][3][4][5] Oxland et al 3 found that translaminar facet fixation was effective to stabilize extension, the direction in which cages did not provide stabilization.…”