The short-term efficacy and safety of artificial total disc replacement for selected patients with lumbar degenerative disc disease compared with anterior lumbar interbody fusion: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Xiaoping Mu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoping Mu, Jianxun Wei, Jiancuo A.

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic, The People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

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• Jianxun Wei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoping Mu, Jianxun Wei, Jiancuo A.

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic, The People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

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• Jiancuo A. ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoping Mu, Jianxun Wei, Jiancuo A.

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Spinal surgery, Qinghai Red Cross Hospital, Xining, Qinghai, China

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• Zhuhai Li,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic, The People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

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• Yufu Ou

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Ou.YF1972@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic, The People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

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