Psoas muscle attenuation on preoperative CT predicts 30-day complications after lateral lumbar interbody fusion.

Brain Spine · 2026 · PMC13129444 · PMID 42079379

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Lower preoperative albumin levels were observed in patients who developed postoperative complications (35.7 ± 5.4 g/L vs 39.2 ± 5.0 g/L), although this difference did not reach statistical significance.

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