Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Patients with an L5–S1 intersomatic cage

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

Cage at L5–S1	Pre-operative	Follow-up	P value
PI	60.5 ± 8.1	61.3 ± 9.0	–
SS	39.0 ± 8.4	41.9 ± 9.6	< 0.05
PT	21.5 ± 7.8	19.4 ± 8.5	0.09
LL	59.5 ± 6.5	58.9 ± 10.3	0.40
L5–S1	14.4 ± 7.4	19.5 ± 6.4	< 0.0001
L4–S1	29.7 ± 5.9	34.4 ± 6.0	< 0.001
L4–S1/LL	0.50 ± 0.11	0.60 ± 0.16	< 0.05

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