Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 Patients with L4–L5 and L5–S1 intersomatic cagess

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

Cages at L4–S1	Pre-operative	Follow-up	P value
PI	54.3 ± 11	55.9 ± 9.2	–
SS	32.3 ± 12.3	37.6 ± 10.5	< 0.05
PT	22.1 ± 9.7	18.3 ± 7.9	0.05
LL	42.3 ± 14.1	51.5 ± 11.0	< 0.001
L4–L5	8.4 ± 7.3	13.3 ± 5.8	< 0.05
L5–S1	10.3 ± 6.5	18.1 ± 6.6	< 0.0001
L4–S1	22.1 ± 10.0	33.8 ± 6.6	< 0.0001
L4–S1/LL	0.53 ± 0.16	0.67 ± 0.09	< 0.001

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