Skeletal muscle contains intramyocellular lipid droplets within the cytoplasm of myocytes as
well as intermuscular adipocytes. These depots exhibit physiological and pathological …

Study Design. Review article. Objectives. To provide an overview of current techniques for
minimally invasive lumbar fusion. Summary of Background Data. Minimally invasive …

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Increasing documentation on the size and appearance of muscles in the lumbar spine of low
back pain (LBP) patients is available in the literature. However, a comparative study …

Study Design. A randomized controlled multicenter study with a 2-year follow-up by an
independent observer. Objectives. To determine whether fusion of the lower lumbar spine …

Background context Low back pain and disability are major public health problems and may
be related to paraspinal muscle abnormalities, such as a reduction in muscle size and …

Forty-nine patients underwent minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
(TLIF) from October 2001 to August 2002 (minimum 18-month follow-up). The diagnosis was …

Study Design: Retrospective study. Objective: The authors aimed to compare the clinical
outcomes of biportal endoscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (BE-TLIF) with …

Previous studies have provided evidence of multifidus muscle atrophy in people with low
back pain (LBP). In cases of acute LBP, these studies have shown that the pattern of atrophy …

We set out to determine whether a minimally invasive approach for one-level instrumented
posterior lumbar interbody fusion reduced undesirable changes in the multifidus muscle …