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Table 4 Intervertebral disc height of normal and pathological segment

From: Analysis of the correlative factors in the selection of interbody fusion cage height in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion

Parameters

Number of segments

MIVH

Height of fusion cage

Segments

Pathological segments

Normal segments

Pathological segments

Normal segments

L3-4

9

125

11.28 ± 3.29

12.76 ± 2.40

12.22 ± 1.86

L4-5

125

32

11.62 ± 2.89

13.18 ± 1.91

12.11 ± 1.38

L5-S1

23

125

10.52 ± 2.22

11.90 ± 2.80

11.25 ± 1.32

  1. MIVH: intervertebral height at the midpoint