POSTERIOR OBLIQUE LUMBAR ARTHRODESIS

摘要

Instruments and methods for spinal stabilization are disclosed. In preferred embodiments, the invention provides greater stabilization of vertebral bodies through methods including combinations of external fixation systems and intervertebral implants to provide greater fusion stability, greater motion segment stability, faster fusion, reduced pain, reduced chance of migration, reduced chance of subsidence, etc. An instrument guide (22) is disclosed with a distal edge (32) which is obliquely inclined to the longitudinal axis of the guide.