Table 4.

Incidence of Underlying Diagnoses for Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Fusion by Procedure Type and Vital Status

Posterior Lumbar Spine Fusion Type	Primary		Revision
	Died	Alive	Died	Alive
N (Sample Size)	(n=617)	(n=221,436)	(n=19)	(n=12,384)
	% of died	% of alive	% of died	% of alive
Degenerative Disc Disease	14.27	40.98	26.01	28.47
Spinal stenosis	8.75	8.83	5.79	9.65
Scoliosis	7.29	6.83	5.37	6.74
Spondylolisthesis	3.51	5.33	0	3.77
Traumatic Indications	21.87	4.07	0	0.82
Oncologic Indications	15.77	0.89	4.85	0.33
Multiple Indications	14.24	27.44	26.36	18.39
Other	14.31	5.63	31.62	31.84