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01-04-2015 | Editorial

Lateral access surgery: a decade of innovation

Authors: Pedro Berjano, Claudio Lamartina, William Smith, Max Aebi

Published in: European Spine Journal | Special Issue 3/2015

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Ten years after Ozgur’s description of the transpsoas anterior lumbar interbody fusion [1] (published in 2006 but submitted in 2005), this technique, considered by many a new fashion that would have soon declined and then disappeared, has gained a place in the armamentarium of spine surgeons. Over this period, a large number of procedures have been performed worldwide, different variations and technical refinements have been proposed and the procedure has been extended to a wider range of indications, now including primary and revision surgery for degenerative problems, adult deformity, corpectomy and thoracic disc herniation. …

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http://www.springer.com/medicine/orthopedics/journal/586?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=CON23255_1_586&utm_source=email&wt_mc=email.newsletter.8.CON23255.internal_1_586. Accessed 24 Mar 2015

Title: Lateral access surgery: a decade of innovation
Authors: Pedro Berjano
Claudio Lamartina
William Smith
Max Aebi
Publication date: 01-04-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Spine Journal / Issue Special Issue 3/2015
Print ISSN: 0940-6719
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0932
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-015-3895-0

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