Segmental Lordosis After Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion Using Expandable Oblique Versus Static Anterior Banana Cages
Open TLIFs performed in conjunction with a PCO yielded 2.0° greater median ΔSL when using expandable obliquely placed cages compared with using static anteriorly placed banana cages. This represents a 50% increase between static and expandable cages. Cage type did not provide a clear advantage for overall ΔLL.
Authors
- Mark E. Shaffrey
- David Ben‐Israel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6120-5435)
- Hong Joo Moon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3841-9080)
- Chun-Po Yen
- Faraz Farzad
- Juan P. Sardi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0696-9213)
- Connor Berlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5090-1753)
- Brian J. Park (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0439-0451)
- Justin S. Smith
Institutions
- Co-operative College (GB)
- University of Virginia (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Operative Neurosurgery
- Published
- 2025-05-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1227/ons.0000000000001639
- Primary Topic
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00