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Patient demographic data, operated level, length of hospital stay, intraoperative blood loss, and operative time were reviewed. Radiological follow-up included assessment of segmental kyphosis, scoliosis, subsidence, and adjacent-level fractures. Complications and pain patterns\u2014separately evaluated for back pain and radiculopathy\u2014were assessed using the visual analog scale (VAS) preoperatively and during follow-up. Only single-level cases were included. Patients with infections, significant stenosis, instability, tumors, prior revision surgery, multilevel pathology, or ambiguous symptoms were excluded. Results: The mean age of the patients was 78.8 years (range, 69\u201389 years), reflecting an elderly cohort. The mean follow-up period was 13.0 \u00b1 11.9 months (range, 1\u201341 months). The mean operative time was 164.8 \u00b1 25.7 min, and the mean hospital stay was 10.2 \u00b1 4.6 days (range, 4\u201325 days). The mean intraoperative blood loss was 126.5 \u00b1 77.6 mL (range, 50\u2013400 mL). One female patient developed postoperative pneumonia, which resolved after appropriate treatment; no other medical complications were observed. Radiculopathy improved significantly immediately after surgery and continued to improve during follow-up. Back pain also improved, but tended to persist to a mild degree. Radiologic evaluation revealed no significant changes in segmental lordosis, and there were no cases of subsidence, scoliosis, or symptomatic screw loosening during the available follow-up period. 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