Endoscopic treatment of lumbar ligamentum flavum cyst by interlaminar approach: a minimally invasive and effective alternative to open surgery

Table 1 Basic situation of ligamentum flavum cyst reported in domestic and foreign literature

	Age (year)	Gender	Location	Surgical method	History of lumbar surgery
Shi [14]	74	Male	L4/5	PLD	None
Fang [15]	20	Male	L4/5	PLD	None
Liu [16]	74	Male	L4/5	PLD	None
Cakir [4]	71	Female	L3/4	PLD	None
Luo [2]	39	Male	L5	PLD	None
Taha [17]	70	Female	L3/4	PLD	None
Wu [11]	39	Male	L5	MED	None
Chen [18]	59	Male	L4/5	TLIF	None
Zhong [19]	51	Female	L4/5	TLIF	None
Wang [13]	69	Male	L4/5	TLIF	None
Shah [10]	63	Male	L4/5	MED	None
Xiao [12]	67	Male	L4/5	MED	None
Nizamani [5]	51	Female	L4/5	PLD	None
Kim [20]	60	Female	L4/5	IELD	None
Sharma [3]	54	Female	L3/4	IELD	None
Yu [8]	74	Male	L3/4	IELD	None
Yuan [9]	71	Female	L5/S1	PLD	None
Li [7]	54	Female	L2/3	TELD	L3-5 TLIF
Kalidindi [6]	55	Female	L4/5	TLIF	None
	69	Male	L4/5	TLIF	None
	70	Male	L3/4, L4/5	TLIF	None

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