MAST-TLIF: 24 Month Retrospective Analysis
Posted on: 08/01/2007
THE MAST TLIF LUMBAR SPINAL FUSION
TECHNIQUE: A TWENTY-FOUR MONTH RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS
FOR THE TREATMENT OF SYMPTOMATIC SEGMENTAL LUMBAR DISC
DISEASE-SSLDD
David P. Rouben, M.D.
River City Orthopaedic Surgeons
Louisville, Kentucky
2007
Background:
The controversy concerning the efficacious options for surgical treatment of disabling, pain producing, Symptomatic Segmental Lumbar Disc Disease-SSLDD has been placed on the top of a list of treatment options being meticulously scrutinized by health care providers, governmental, and commercial insurance carriers. Unfortunately the existing peer-reviewed published research on this subject lacks consistency from the perspective of data points that lend themselves to comparison and confirmation. Anecdotal evidence, from those who perform any number of the plethora of surgical treatment options, seems to favor continuation of this approach, rather than accepting the laborious and uncertain outcome facing patients who engage in months and months of myriad of non-surgical treatments without any sense of when or if a positive outcome can be expected. This research is being presented to establish a basis from which all interested parties might compare fairly many of the factors that lend themselves to making a decision about the legitimate use of minimally invasive spinal fusion to permanently and consistently reduce and relieve pain emanating from a single specific lumbar spinal segment.
Download the Full Paper
Back to archive
