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See Latest ArticlesTwo-year fusion and clinical outcomes in 224 patients treated with a single-level instrumented posterolateral fusion with iliac crest bone graft
The Spine Journal, 10/23/09
Dimar JR et al. – In a large series of patients who had primary single–level instrumented posterolateral fusion with ICBG, evidence of bridging bone on fine–cut CT scans improved with time to 83.9% at 24 months. Significant improvement from baseline was noted in all clinical outcome measures at all time intervals with 75% achieving minimum clinically important difference for ODI and 66% achieving MCID for SF–36 PCS.
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