Standalone bilateral decompression for Grade I degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS) has long lived in the shadow of fusion. For years, the prevailing fear has been the same: “Sure, decompression feels good now…but will they come back demanding hardware later?”
One group of researchers decided to stop speculating and do something radical: they waited 10 years.
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