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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Spine J. 2020 Nov 20;21(5):785–794. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2020.11.003

Figure 1:

Figure 1:

National fusion method utilization in 2016 as a proportion of all fusion procedures within racial/ethnic groups. Within each race/ethnicity, different procedures were used at similar proportions. The use of anterior-posterior fusion in Blacks was statistically significantly lower than Whites. PLF indicates posterolateral fusion, P/TLIF indicates posterior or transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, ALIF indicates anterior lumbar interbody fusion (also includes extreme lateral interbody fusion, XLIF, and direct lateral interbody fusion, DLIF), and PLF + ALIF indicates anterior-posterior fusion.