Comment on: “Lumbar Spine Endplate Sclerosis is a Protective Factor for Cage Subsidence in Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion”
We read with great interest the study by Liao et al, 1 who report that lower endplate Hounsfield unit (HU) values and obesity independently predicted cage subsidence after minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MI-TLIF), and that an endplate HU cutoff of 221 stratified subsidence risk among patients...