Comparison of Clinical Outcomes, Complications Rate and Treatment Costs of Mini-TLIF and MIDLIF in the Treatment of Discogenic Low Back Pain

Exclusion Criteria

• •Contraindications to surgery under general anesthesia
• •Age \< 18 years
• •Pregnancy, breastfeeding
• •Lack of informed consent to participate in the study
• •Lumbar-sac discopathy requiring surgical treatment at more than two levels
• •Spinal deformities: adult idiopathic scoliosis, degenerative scoliosis, deformity due to spinal malignancy, inflammatory spinal disease, post-traumatic, or associated with congenital anomalies
• •Lower lumbar-sacral pain syndrome, which, in the investigator's opinion, has an etiology other than degenerative spine disease (e.g., cancer-related pain, ankylosing spondylitis)
• •Spinal oncology disease
• •True and degenerative spondylolisthesis
• •Contraindications to performing MRI of the lumbar-sacral spine