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THE CASE WAS STAGED WITH THREE LEVELS OF LATERAL FROM L1-L4 COMPLETED THE DAY PRIOR, A PREOP CT TAKEN AND THEN AN ALIF AT 5-1 THE DAY OF THE POSTERIOR PORTION. AFTER THE ALIF, PATIENT WAS FLIPPED, AND A SMALL SKIN LEVEL INCISION WAS MADE FROM T9 TO THE PELVIS - NOT MUCH EXPOSURE WAS PERFORMED AS THE SCREWS WERE GOING TO BE INSERTED USING CREO MIS. FLOURO IMAGES WERE ACQUIRED, AND THE MERGE WAS ACCURATE AT ALL LEVELS EXCEPT FOR L4. NEW IMAGES WERE ACQUIRED, AND THE MERGE WAS RERUN WHICH IMPROVED AT L4. WE BEGAN INSERTING SCREWS AT T9 AND SNAKED DOWN TO THE PELVIS. IN THE PELVIS WE WERE GOING TO BE PLACING TWO CREO S2AI SCREWS AND TWO MEDIAL TO LATERAL SI LOK SELECT SCREWS. THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE PLACED WAS CREO S2AI LEFT, SILOK SELECT LEFT, CREO S2AI RIGHT, SILOK SELECT RIGHT - DUE TO THE DRB BEING PLACED IN RIGHT PSIS ON LOW PROFILE QUATTRO SPIKE. FLOURO IMAGES WERE TAKEN, AND ALL THE SCREWS SEEMED TO BE PLACED CORRECTLY. DR. 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