Internal medicine

Pathology

Complication

Meta-analysis

Surgery

Political science

Subgroup analysis

Systematic review

Alternative medicine

MEDLINE

Pseudarthrosis

Arthrodesis

Medicine

Journal of Neurosurgery Spine

Minimally invasive anterolateral retroperitoneal approaches for lumbar interbody arthrodesis have distinct advantages attractive to spine surgeons. Prepsoas or transpsoas trajectories can be employed with differing complication profiles because of the inherent anatomical differences encountered in each approach. The evidence comparing them remains limited because of poor quality data. Here, the authors sought to systematically review the available literature and perform a meta-analysis comparing the two techniques.

Complications for minimally invasive lateral interbody arthrodesis: a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing prepsoas and transpsoas approaches