Table 5.

Comparisons to the literature

Author	Number of patients	Number VCR levels	Approach	Average major curve preoperatively	Average major curve correction	Average estimated blood loss	Average operative time
Bradford [2]	13	3 average (range, 1–7)	Ant/Post	117	53%	5800	10.5 hours
Bradford and Tribus [3]	24	1.3 average (range, 1–3)	Ant/Post	103	52%	5500	> 12 hours
Suk et al. [15, 16]	16	1.3 average	Post only	109	59%	7034	6 hours 11 minutes
Lenke et al. [Current study]	43	1.5 average (range, 1–3)	Post only	92	61%	1103	9 hours 37 minutes

VCR = vertebral column resection; Ant = anterior; Post = posterior.