Journal of Spine

Alphonse Lubansu

Publications

• Research Article
  Effects of an Optimized Automated Disc Preparation on Clinical and Radiological Outcome of Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Interbody Fusion Procedure
  Author(s): Alphonse Lubansu, Jean-Claude Cajot, Laurence Abeloos, Landry Drogba and Olivier De WitteAlphonse Lubansu, Jean-Claude Cajot, Laurence Abeloos, Landry Drogba and Olivier De Witte
  
  Objective: In minimally invasive techniques for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS TLIF) access to the disc and by consequence, the extension of the discectomy can be reduced. Insufficient disc removal and endplate violation can lead to non-unions, subsidence and pseudoarthroses. In this study, we compare the quality of disc preparation, volume of bone graft and clinical results in a group of patients who underwent MIS TLIF with discectomy and endplate preparation aided by an automated discectomy device, the enSpireTM Flex MIS Surgical Discectomy System (study group) to a control group with classical, manual instrumentation for disc preparation. Materials and methods: Twenty-seven consecutive patients were enrolled in the study group and 33 patients in the control group. All patients received similar mixture of autologous bone and cadaver allograft. Disc volume and .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7939.S5-005

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