Technical Considerations of Uniportal Endoscopic Posterolateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Review of Its Early Clinical Results in Application in Adult Degenerative Scoliosis.

Abstract

Uniportal endoscopic posterolateral lumbar interbody fusion (Endo-TLIF) provides one of the least invasive forms of minimally invasive surgery, allowing large size cages which are commercially available for open and tubular microscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) to be inserted through this approach. We studied the effect of such a technique on a series of patients with low-grade degenerative scoliosis.