(Part 2/5) When I was a young spine surgeon in the late 1980s, a patient with degenerative spondylolisthesis typically ended up with a laminectomy and spinal fusion. Cue the controversy. Around 2000, a laminectomy and spinal fusion with rods, screws, and maybe a spinal cage was still the go-to treatment.
Now it’s 2025 and our equipment and technology has advanced dramatically. These new technologies now have us asking: is a spinal fusion still the right procedure?
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