Planned two-stage surgery using lateral lumbar interbody fusion and posterior corrective fusion: a retrospective study of perioperative complications.
Yu YamatoTomohiko HasegawaGo YoshidaTatsuya YasudaTomohiro BannoShin OeHideyuki ArimaYuki MiharaHiroki UshirozakoTomohiro YamadaKoichiro IdeYuh WatanabeYukihiro MatsuyamaPublished in: European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society (2021)
The complication rate for planned two-stage surgery was similar to that of previous posterior-only single-stage surgery. However, early reoperation was less common, and the degree of spinal correction and clinical results were significantly better after two-stage surgery.