What is a Lumbar Spine X-ray? It is a plain X-ray of the lower ... face the X-ray beam and the spine is shown from the front to the back, and a "lateral" picture where the X-ray beam comes from the ...

Lateral lumbar interbody fusions are become more popular as patients seek out minimally invasive surgery options with quicker recovery. Here are three things to know about lateral lumbar fusions, ...

Background: Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis ... of spinal canal. For lateral stenosis height and depth of the ...

a visualization technology to enable real-time imaging during minimally invasive lateral lumbar spine surgery. The system provides the surgeon with intraoperative visualization allowing an ...

The researchers identified 10 patients (2.8 percent) with six lumbar vertebrae with the symptomatic level at L5-6. Two of these could be treated using a lateral transpsoas approach and eight were ...

Evidence-based recommendations on lateral interbody fusion in the lumbar spine for low back pain in adults. This involves removing the damaged disc and fixing parts of the spine together, to relieve ...

In the included studies, ten various parameters were applied with regard to lumbar stenosis. These measures might be distinguished into descriptors for central, lateral and foraminal stenosis ...

Current evidence on the safety of lateral (including extreme, extra and direct lateral) interbody fusion in the lumbar spine for low back pain shows there are serious but well-recognised complications ...