Navigated oblique lumbar interbody fusion for adult spinal deformity

Chih-Chang Chang; Joshua Rivera; Brenton Pennicooke; Dean Chou; Praveen V Mummaneni

doi:10.3171/2020.1.FocusVid.19700

Navigated oblique lumbar interbody fusion for adult spinal deformity

Neurosurg Focus Video. 2020 Jan 1;2(1):V7. doi: 10.3171/2020.1.FocusVid.19700. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Chih-Chang Chang^{1

2

3}, Joshua Rivera⁴, Brenton Pennicooke¹, Dean Chou¹, Praveen V Mummaneni¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, California.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei.
³ School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; and.
⁴ University of California, San Francisco, California.

Abstract

Adult spinal deformity (ASD) is an increasing disease entity as the population ages. An emerging minimally invasive surgery (MIS) option for the treatment of ASD is the oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF), which allows indirect foraminal decompression of stenosis as well as segmental deformity correction (DiGiorgio et al., 2017). The authors utilize computer-assisted navigation with OLIF to reduce radiation exposure and improve time efficiency. The authors present a video of navigated oblique lumbar interbody fusion at L3-5 followed by open posterior screw-rod fixation. The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/zKDT7PhMYf8.

Keywords: OLIF; adult spinal deformity; minimally invasive surgery; oblique lumbar interbody fusion; prepsoas; video.