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Instances involving concomitant lumbar spondylolisthesis at adjacent segments are extremely rare and poorly documented in the current literature.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title><jats:p>The 67-year-old woman presenting with recurrent lower back pain, numbness, and swelling in the left lower limb for over 6 months. Previous conservative treatments yielded minimal relief. DR imaging showed anterior displacement of the L4 vertebral body and reduced L5\/S1 intervertebral height. CT imaging confirmed L4 anterior slippage with L4\/5 segmental spinal stenosis, a disc vacuum phenomenon at L5\/S1, and a gas-containing cyst at the left posterior margin of the intervertebral disc. MRI imaging revealed a low-signal area on T1-weighted imaging\/T2-weighted imaging sequences at the cyst location. A preliminary diagnosis of L5\/S1 gas-containing disc cyst with adjacent L4\/5 spondylolisthesis was established based on comprehensive clinical assessments. And a two-segment minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion was performed at L4\/5 and L5\/S1.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Result<\/jats:title><jats:p>The patient experienced significant symptom relief, with postoperative CT confirming cyst resolution, restored L5\/S1 intervertebral height, and L4\/5 stability. At 1-month follow-up, the patient reported minimal pain. By 3 months, lower extremity symptoms had fully resolved.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>These findings suggest that fusion surgery might be a superior treatment option for cases involving discal cysts with spondylolisthesis, particularly when clinical evidence of vertebral instability is present.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fsurg.2025.1626636","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,26]],"date-time":"2025-08-26T15:16:22Z","timestamp":1756221382000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["MIS-TLIF for a gas-containing discal cyst with adjacent -lumbar spondylolisthesis: a case report and literature review"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Haoyun","family":"Huang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guangye","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Junwen","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rigao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yi","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1621","DOI":"10.1007\/s00586-010-1395-9","article-title":"Discal cysts of the lumbar spine: report of five cases and review of the literature","volume":"19","author":"Aydin","year":"2010","journal-title":"Eur Spine J"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2112","DOI":"10.1097\/00007632-200110010-00014","article-title":"Intraspinal cyst communicating with the intervertebral disc in the lumbar spine: discal cyst","volume":"26","author":"Chiba","year":"2001","journal-title":"Spine (Phila Pa 1976)"},{"key":"B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"675","DOI":"10.3109\/02688697.2015.1100274","article-title":"Lumbar discal cyst as a cause of radiculopathy: case report","volume":"30","author":"Cho","year":"2016","journal-title":"Br J Neurosurg"},{"key":"B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"85","DOI":"10.3171\/spi.2007.6.1.17","article-title":"Discal cysts of the lumbar spine. 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