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

<div class="floats-full-page floats-full-page-other"><h2>Table 2</h2><div class="floats-full-page-caption">Results and complications of each approach method.</div><div class="floats-full-page-content"><table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr /></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left"> </td><td align="center">Traditional open T	LIF</td><td align="center">Miniopen TLIF</td><td align="center">Minimally invasive TLIF</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr /></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Mean VAS (pain score) on second day after surgery</td><td align="center">7.5</td><td align="center">2.8</td><td align="center">2.5</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Hospital stay (day)</td><td align="center">10.2</td><td align="center">6.3</td><td align="center">5.8</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Postoperative infection: number (percentage)</td><td align="center">2 (1.6%)</td><td align="center">0 (0%)</td><td align="center">0 (0%)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">CSF leakage: number (percentage)</td><td align="center">3 (5%)</td><td align="center">5 (0.6%)</td><td align="center">0 (0%)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr" /></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></div>

Table 2 | Comparing Miniopen and Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Interbody Fusion in Single-Level Lumbar Degeneration

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Table 2: Comparing Miniopen and Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Interbody Fusion in Single-Level Lumbar Degeneration

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