Unilateral biportal endoscopic versus microscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for lumbar degenerative disease: a retrospective study.

J Orthop Surg Res · 2024 · PMC11144317 · PMID 38824551

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a trend toward significanceP -value = 0.08so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Visual Analog Scale (VAS) scores for back pain and leg pain showed no statistically significant differences, except for a trend toward significance in VAS back pain ( P -value = 0.08), indicating a slightly lower mean score in the MIS-TLIF group.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

The findings underscore that radicular pain did not reach statistical significance between the two lumbar fusion procedures.

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