Response to the letter to the editor (Lumbar spine endplate sclerosis is a protective factor for cage subsidence in minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion)
This response acknowledges the readers’ insightful queries regarding our study on lumbar spine endplate Hounsfield units (HU) and cage subsidence in minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MI-TLIF), addressing optimism bias in threshold generation and patient-level clustering. For internal validation...