Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 2 Patients with an L4–L5 intersomatic cage. Pelvic incidence (PI), Sacral Slope (SS), Pelvic Tilt (PT)

From: Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion with a tantalum cage: lumbar lordosis redistribution and sacral slope restoration with a modified posterior technique

Cage at L4–L5	Pre-operative	Follow-up	P value
PI	58.8 ± 9.8	59.3 ± 9.5	–
SS	35.6 ± 10.9	37.5 ± 10.6	< 0.05
PT	23.2 ± 8.8	21.8 ± 8.5	0.05
LL	51.9 ± 11.9	52.4 ± 11.9	0.33
L4–L5	10.4 ± 5.3	14.4 ± 4.5	< 0.0001
L4–S1	28.1 ± 8.7	32.0 ± 7.0	< 0.0001
L4–S1/LL	0.54 ± 0.14	0.62 ± 0.14	< 0.0001

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