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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">neurosurgery</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Нейрохирургия</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Russian journal of neurosurgery</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1683-3295</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2587-7569</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Издательский дом "МедИНК"</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17650/1683-3295-2019-21-3-29-36</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">neurosurgery-743</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ОРИГИНАЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>ORIGINAL REPORT</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Техника перкутанного артродеза дугоотростчатых суставов в хирургическом лечении дегенеративных заболеваний поясничного отдела позвоночника</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Percutaneous facet joints arthrodesis technology in surgical treatment of degenerative diseases of lumbar spine</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4391-7698</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Булкин</surname><given-names>А. А.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Bulkin</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Анатолий Алексеевич Булкин</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">anatolbulkin@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5203-0717</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Боков</surname><given-names>А. Е.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Bokov</surname><given-names>A. E.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6310-4961</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Млявых</surname><given-names>С. Г.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Mlyavykh</surname><given-names>S. G.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9484-6992</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Кравец</surname><given-names>Л. Я.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kravets</surname><given-names>L. Ya.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1566-1453</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Авдонина</surname><given-names>Ю. Д.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Avdonina</surname><given-names>Yu. D.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>ФГБОУ ВО «Приволжский исследовательский медицинский университет» Минздрава России</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Privolzhskiy Research Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2019</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>14</day><month>09</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>29</fpage><lpage>36</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Булкин А.А., Боков А.Е., Млявых С.Г., Кравец Л.Я., Авдонина Ю.Д., 2019</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2019</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Булкин А.А., Боков А.Е., Млявых С.Г., Кравец Л.Я., Авдонина Ю.Д.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Bulkin A.A., Bokov A.E., Mlyavykh S.G., Kravets L.Y., Avdonina Y.D.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.therjn.com/jour/article/view/743">https://www.therjn.com/jour/article/view/743</self-uri><abstract><sec><title>Актуальность</title><p>Актуальность. Современное развитие хирургии позвоночника неразрывно связано с широким внедрением различных минимально инвазивных технологий спондилодеза, однако их общим недостатком считаются объективные трудности в проведении заднего спондилодеза. В связи с этим вопросы профилактики псевдоартроза и дестабилизации имплантатов продолжают оставаться актуальными.</p><p>Цель исследования – оценить безопасность и эффективность разработанной авторами техники перкутанного артродеза дугоотростчатых суставов (ПАДС) как метода, дополняющего межтеловой спондилодез и перкутанную заднюю фиксацию в хирургическом лечении дегенеративных заболеваний поясничного отдела позвоночника.</p></sec><sec><title>Материалы и методы</title><p>Материалы и методы. Проведен сравнительный анализ результатов лечения 80 пациентов с дегенеративными заболеваниями поясничного отдела позвоночника, у которых выполнены минимально инвазивные декомпрессивно-стабилизирующие вмешательства с использованием заднего трансфораминального, латерального забрюшинного и переднего забрюшинного доступов. У 20 пациентов дополнительно был выполнен ПАДС. Они составили основную группу исследования. Минимальный срок наблюдения пациентов составил 12 мес. Оценивали частоту различных осложнений, их тяжесть, степень формирования костного блока.</p></sec><sec><title>Результаты</title><p>Результаты. Техника ПАДС позволила увеличить вероятность формирования заднего костного блока приблизительно в 50 раз (p &lt;0,0001, логистический регрессионный анализ, двухсторонний точный тест Фишера). В 3 (15 %) случаях задний костный блок после выполнения ПАДС сформировался, по данным рентгенографии, раньше межтелового спондилодеза, что обеспечило сохранение стабильности оперированного сегмента. Каких-либо клинически значимых осложнений в периоперационном и послеоперационном периодах у пациентов основной группы не наблюдалось.</p></sec><sec><title>Заключение</title><p>Заключение. ПАДС – безопасная и эффективная малоинвазивная методика, позволяющая в более ранние сроки сформировать задний костный блок, снижая риск развития псевдоартроза после выполнения минимально инвазивных декомпрессивно-стабилизирующих операций на поясничном отделе позвоночника.</p></sec></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><sec><title>Background</title><p>Background. Minimally invasive technology of fusion broadly introduced in clinical practice represent one of modern trends in spinal surgery on the other hand those technical solutions lack to provide posterior fusion. As a consequence, patients treated with minimally invasive techniques are vulnerable in terms of pseudarthrosis and implant instability therefore measures focused on those complications’ prevention are still actual.</p><p>The study objective is to evaluate efficacy and safety of suggested percutaneous facet joints arthrodesis technique as an auxiliary option to interbody fusion.</p></sec><sec><title>Materials and methods</title><p>Materials and methods. This is a prospective non-randomized study of 80 patients with degenerative diseases of the lumbar spine who were treated applying minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, lateral lumbar interbody fusion and anterior lumbar interbody fusion. In 20 cases out of those enrolled interbody fusion was supplemented with percutaneous posterior facet joints arthrodesis. Computed tomography was administered at the period of 6 and 12 months after surgery to assess anterior and posterior fusion. The minimal follow-up period accounted for 12 months.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Results. The suggested percutaneous facet joints arthrodesis fifty-fold increased the probability of posterior fusion formation compared to the rate of spontaneous spinal fusion (p &lt;0.0001, logistic regression was applied). In three cases posterior fusion formed prior to interbody fusion providing stability of segment operated on. No adverse events and no complications associated with percutaneous arthrodesis were detected.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Conclusion. The suggested percutaneous facet joints arthrodesis is safe and effective minimally invasive technique that facilitates additional posterior spinal fusion formation in a short-term period herewith decreasing symptomatic pseudarthrosis development in patients operated on using minimally invasive spinal fixation and fusion.</p></sec></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>дегенеративные заболевания поясничного отдела позвоночника</kwd><kwd>минимально инвазивные вмешательства</kwd><kwd>межтеловой спондилодез</kwd><kwd>задний спондилодез</kwd><kwd>перкутанный артродез дугоотростчатых суставов</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>degenerative diseases of the lumbar spine</kwd><kwd>minimally invasive surgery</kwd><kwd>interbody fusion</kwd><kwd>posterior spinal fusion</kwd><kwd>percutaneous facet joints arthrodesis</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Ni J., Fang X., Zhong W. et al. 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