COWO is a useful procedure for patients with sagittal imbalance requiring more than 35 degrees lordotic correction through the osteotomy site. A worse clinical result is associated with increasing patient comorbidities, pseudarthrosis in lumbosacral fusion, and junctional kyphosis.
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