The overall fusion rate was 96%, which compares favorably with reports of similar devices. [1,4,11,12] For the patients with complete data, the Simmons group had a slightly better fusion rate than ...

There was 1 arterial laceration during the anterior exposure of 1 anterior-posterior fusion patient (PI-0.3%)(Table 2). The overall postoperative complication rate was 13.4% (n=47).