Comparing Miniopen and Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Interbody Fusion in Single-Level Lumbar Degeneration

Table 2

Results and complications of each approach method.

	Traditional open T LIF	Miniopen TLIF	Minimally invasive TLIF
Mean VAS (pain score) on second day after surgery	7.5	2.8	2.5
Hospital stay (day)	10.2	6.3	5.8
Postoperative infection: number (percentage)	2 (1.6%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
CSF leakage: number (percentage)	3 (5%)	5 (0.6%)	0 (0%)