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Table 5 Perioperative complications of Open-TLIF and Mis-TLIF groups

From: Comparison of minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (Mis-TLIF) with bilateral decompression via unilateral approach and open-TLIF with bilateral decompression for degenerative lumbar diseases: a retrospective cohort study

Complications

Open-TLIF (n = 135)

Mis-TLIF (n = 113)

Poor wound healing

3 (2 reoperation)

 

Deep infection

1 (1 reoperation)

 

Cerebrospinal fluid leak

8

2

Postoperative pyrexia

4

 

Pulmonary infection

 

1

Epidural hematoma

 

2 (2 reoperation)

Nerve root compression

1 (1 reoperation)

 

Adjacent segment disease

3

 

Cage loosening and migration

 

1

Screw loosening

 

1