Additional decompression at adjacent segments leads to adjacent segment degeneration after PLIF

Clinical Outcomes and Radiologic Changes After Microsurgical Bilateral Decompression by a Unilateral Approach in Patients With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis and Grade I Degenerative Spondylolisthesis With a Minimum 3-Year Follow-Up

(2016) Jun-Won Jang et al.   Clinical Spine Surgery

Adjacent segment degeneration after single-segment PLIF: the risk factor for degeneration and its impact on clinical outcomes

(2011) Bai-Ling Chen et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Adjacent segment degenerative disease: is it due to disease progression or a fusion-associated phenomenon? Comparison between segments adjacent to the fused and non-fused segments

(2011) Kyung-Jin Song et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Dynamic stabilization adjacent to single-level fusion: Part II. No clinical benefit for asymptomatic, initially degenerated adjacent segments after 6 years follow-up

(2010) Michael Putzier et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Success and Failure of Minimally Invasive Decompression for Focal Lumbar Spinal Stenosis in Patients With and Without Deformity

(2010) Michael O. Kelleher et al.   SPINE

A prospective randomised study on the long-term effect of lumbar fusion on adjacent disc degeneration

(2009) Per Ekman et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Sagittal Alignment as a Risk Factor for Adjacent Level Degeneration: A Case-Control Study

(2009) Mladen Djurasovic et al.   ORTHOPEDICS

Muscle-Preserving Interlaminar Decompression for the Lumbar Spine

(2009) Yoichiro Hatta et al.   SPINE

Lamina Horizontalization and Facet Tropism as the Risk Factors for Adjacent Segment Degeneration After PLIF

(2008) Shinya Okuda et al.   SPINE