OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical and radiological results of 10 patients operated for degenerative lumbar disease, by performing tricortical bone graft from the iliac crest and instrumented posterior lateral fusion with translaminar facet screw fixation. METHODS: We evaluated 10 patients, four men and six women, operated by the same surgeon between June 2006 and December 2007. RESULTS: There was a significant reduction of disability and pain (according to the scale of Oswestry and visual analog scale), reaching fusion rate of 100% in one-year follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: The clinical and radiological results of this study establish that this procedure is reliable, has low cost and low morbidity with a high rate of fusion and good clinical results.
Spinal fusion; Arthrodesis; Bone screws; Lumbar vertebrae
