Clinical efficacy of AUSS/UNSES-TLIF in the treatment of single-segment degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis: a retrospective study

Table 2 Pain visual analog scale (VAS) scores and Oswestry disability index (ODI) scores

Parameters	AUSS-TLIF (N = 34)	MIS-TLIF (N = 37)	Statistics	P-value
VAS score
Pre-operation	7.44 ± 1.67	7.57 ± 1.39	t = 0.3436	0.7322
3 days after operation	2.82 ± 1.84	4.92 ± 2.21	t = 4.261	< 0.001**
3 months after operation	1.53 ± 0.78	2.27 ± 1.27	t = 2.900	0.0050*
12 months after operation	0.50 ± 0.61	0.73 ± 0.60	t = 1.581	0.1183
ODI score(%)
Pre-operation	71.50 ± 8.39	74.77 ± 7.91	t = 1.667	0.1000
3 month after operation	19.48 ± 6.38	26.55 ± 7.01	t = 4.370	< 0.001**
12 month after operation	7.84 ± 4.22	8.53 ± 4.21	t = 0.6747	0.5021

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