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Answer to the Letter to the Editor of Yi Shen et al. concerning “Risk factors for adjacent segment pathology requiring additional surgery after single-level spinal fusion: impact of pre-existing spinal stenosis demonstrated by preoperative myelography” by I. Yugué et al. (2015) Eur Spine J Aug 14 doi:10.1007/s00586-015-4291-5

Author: Itaru Yugue

Published in: European Spine Journal | Issue 4/2016

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We thank the authors for their comments on our article. PLIF has been reported to cause C-ASP more frequently than PLF [1, 2]. More authors, however, have reported no association between the occurrence of C-ASP and type of arthrodesis [3‐7]. Neither postoperative segmental lordosis [8‐13] nor % slip [8, 9, 13] at the fusion segment was reported to be associated with occurrence of ASP. In the present study, type of arthrodesis, segmental lordosis, and % slip at the fused segment were not significant risk factors. These findings show that the association between conditions of fused segments and the occurrence of ASP is still controversial. …

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Title: Answer to the Letter to the Editor of Yi Shen et al. concerning “Risk factors for adjacent segment pathology requiring additional surgery after single-level spinal fusion: impact of pre-existing spinal stenosis demonstrated by preoperative myelography” by I. Yugué et al. (2015) Eur Spine J Aug 14 doi:10.1007/s00586-015-4291-5
Author: Itaru Yugue
Publication date: 01-04-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Spine Journal / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0940-6719
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0932
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-015-4302-6

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