Successful salvage surgery for failed transforaminal lumbosacral interbody fusion using the anterior transperitoneal approach

Takashi Hozumi; Sumihisa Orita; Kazuhide Inage; Kazuki Fujimoto; Jun Sato; Yasuhiro Shiga; Hirohito Kanamoto; Koki Abe; Kazuyo Yamauchi; Yasuchika Aoki; Junichi Nakamura; Yusuke Matsuura; Takane Suzuki; Kazuhisa Takahashi; Seiji Ohtori; Takeshi Sainoh

doi:10.1002/ccr3.553

Successful salvage surgery for failed transforaminal lumbosacral interbody fusion using the anterior transperitoneal approach

Clin Case Rep. 2016 Mar 29;4(5):477-80. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.553. eCollection 2016 May.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Graduate School of Medicine Chiba University Chiba Japan.
² Department of Orthopaedic Surgery East Chiba Medical Center Togane Japan.
³ Department of Bioenvironmental Medicine Graduate School of Medicine Chiba University Chiba Japan.

Abstract

Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) is a popular posterior spinal fusion technique, but sometimes require salvage surgery when implant failure occurs, which involves possible neural damage due to postoperative adhesion. The current report deals with successful anterior transperitoneal salvage surgery for failed L5-S TLIF with less neural invasiveness.

Keywords: Lumbosacral fusion; revision surgery; transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion; transperitoneal anterior approach.

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Case Reports