Anatomical Evaluation of Lumbar Arteries for Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Degenerative lumbar disease
Lateral lumbar interbody fusion
Lumbar segmental vessels
Lumbar spine
Journal
Spine surgery and related research
ISSN: 2432-261X
Titre abrégé: Spine Surg Relat Res
Pays: Japan
ID NLM: 101718059
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
01
03
2019
accepted:
24
07
2019
entrez:
11
2
2020
pubmed:
11
2
2020
medline:
11
2
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) is becoming a more common surgical treatment option for adult degenerative lumbar conditions. LLIF is a mini-open access technique with wound retractors, and postoperative hematoma due to segmental vessels injury is reported. Thus, it is considered that there is a need to conduct detailed preoperative examinations to identify where the lumbar vessels are. As far as we know, there are only a few studies investigating the location of the lumbar arteries. This study evaluates the anatomical position of lumbar arteries using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We studied 101 MRIs of patients with lumbar disease. The length from the upper and lower end plates of the vertebra to the lumbar arteries was measured. The measurement was conducted with coronal MRI images of every quarter slice of L1 to L4 vertebrae. We also investigated sagittal MRI images to determine whether the lumbar vessels are located on intervertebral disc in each level from L1/2 to L5/S1. The lumbar vessels are not always located at the center of the vertebrae. Some lumbar vessels are located within 8 mm from the end plates. Especially in L4, the lumbar vessels tended to go down from the anterior cranial side to the posterior caudal side (P < 0.01). 8, 24, and 54 lumbar vessels are located at the anterior quarter, the center, and the posterior quarter slice of the vertebrae, respectively, in L4. There were seven lumbar vessels in total located on the vertebral disc level. It is necessary to investigate where the lumbar arteries are located to prevent its injury in LLIF, because the lumbar artery is not always located at the center of a vertebra. MRIs may provide a valuable information to avoid vascular injury during LLIF.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32039300
doi: 10.22603/ssrr.2019-0013
pmc: PMC7002069
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
69-73Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 by The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare that there are no relevant conflicts of interest.
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