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Eighty-six adult patients (64 women, 22 men; mean age 64.9 \u00b1 10.8 years) met the inclusion criteria. Outcomes included length of stay (LOS), early postoperative neurological change (Frankel\/American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Impairment Scale), and unplanned reoperation within 90 days. Analyses were performed in Python 3.11 (pandas, SciPy, statsmodels) and verified in IBM SPSS 28.0; \u03b1 = 0.05. Results: Spondylolisthesis was the predominant diagnosis (60.5%), followed by lumbar stenosis (17.4%). Instrumentation was used in 75 cases (87.2%). Median LOS was 3 days (mean 3.8 \u00b1 2.1), and most patients were discharged by postoperative day 4. LOS did not differ by interbody cage status (Mann\u2013Whitney p = 0.459; median 3 vs. 3 days). Early postoperative neurological change occurred in 34.9% but improved or resolved in all cases by discharge; no permanent motor deficits were observed. Unplanned reoperation within 90 days occurred in 17.6%. In multivariable logistic regression for prolonged hospitalization (LOS &gt; 4 days), early postoperative neurological change was associated with increased odds of prolonged LOS (OR 4.45, 95% CI 1.29\u201315.43; p = 0.018), whereas age showed only a borderline association (OR 1.06 per year, 95% CI 1.00\u20131.14; p = 0.065). Conclusions: In this single-center retrospective cohort, postoperative hospitalization was generally short. Prolonged LOS was more closely associated with early postoperative neurological change than with baseline comorbidity or interbody cage use. 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