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Archive: May 2024

“360-degree” (“front-back”) Surgical Reconstruction of “Isthmic” and Advanced “Degenerative” Spondylolisthesis: ALIF with Posterior Back-up Instrumentation

BACKGROUND If there is a congenital (developmental) defect of a posterior stabilising structure of the spine called the pars interarticularis, then a spinal slip (spondylolisthesis) can arise from this “pars defect“. It usually becomes apparent in a person’s 30s to 40s, as the symptoms of low back pain +/- leg symptoms become more apparent and […]

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