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. 2023 Aug 1;36(7):253-255.
doi: 10.1097/BSD.0000000000001435. Epub 2023 Feb 15.

Is Standalone Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion Enough?

William Conaway  1 , Taylor Paziuk, Aditya Mazmudar, Khoa S Tran, Parth Kothari, Zachary Wilt, Mark F Kurd, Gregory D Schroeder, Alexander R Vaccaro, Alan S Hilibrand, Christopher K Kepler
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Is Standalone Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion Enough?

William Conaway et al. Clin Spine Surg. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Dr. Schroeder has received funds to travel from AOSpine and Medtronic. Dr. Vaccaro has consulted or has done independent contracting for DePuy, Medtronic, Stryker Spine, Globus, Stout Medical, Gerson Lehrman Group, Guidepoint Global, Medacorp, Innovative Surgical Design, Orthobullets, Ellipse, and Vertex. He has also served on the scientific advisory board/board of directors/committees for Flagship Surgical, AOSpine, Innovative Surgical Design, and Association of Collaborative Spine Research. Dr. Vaccaro has received royalty payments from Medtronic, Stryker Spine, Globus, Aesculap, Thieme, Jaypee, Elsevier, and Taylor Francis/Hodder and Stoughton. He has stock/stock option ownership interests in Replication Medica, Globus, Paradigm Spine, Stout Medical, Progressive Spinal Technologies, Advanced Spinal Intellectual Properties, Spine Medica, Computational Biodynamics, Spinology, In Vivo, Flagship Surgical, Cytonics, Bonovo Orthopaedics, Electrocore, Gamma Spine, Location Based Intelligence, FlowPharma, R.S.I., Rothman Institute and Related Properties, Innovative Surgical Design, and Avaz Surgical. In addition, Dr. Vaccaro has also provided expert testimony. He has also served as deputy editor/editor of Clinical Spine Surgery. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.

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