Cervical arthroplasty: material properties

Cervical arthroplasty.

Anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) is a common surgical technique for treating patients with symptomatic degenerative cervical disc disease, which is refractory to nonoperative therapy.4,5,15 This exposure allows for safe neural decompression, and the arthrodesis effectively halts the degenerative process at the treated segment. Although the results of ACDF are generally in the g...

Cervical Disc Arthroplasty

Cervical Total Disc Arthroplasty

Symptomatic adjacent segment degeneration of the cervical spine remains problematic for patients and surgeons alike. Despite advances in surgical techniques and instrumentation, the solution remains elusive. Spurred by the success of total joint arthroplasty in hips and knees, surgeons and industry have turned to motion preservation devices in the cervical spine. By preserving motion at the dis...

Historical review of cervical arthroplasty.

Early attempts at spinal arthroplasty in the 1950s yielded limited success. A revival of this procedure occurred in the 1980s and became a realistic treatment option in the 1990s. Both lumbar and cervical arthroplasties have been introduced in the US since 2000 for randomized, prospective studies in accordance with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigational device exemption provisio...

Cervical arthroplasty in two dogs with disk-associated cervical spondylomyelopathy.

CASE DESCRIPTION A 4-year-old sexually intact male Doberman Pinscher (dog 1) was evaluated for signs of recurrent cervical pain and ataxia, and a 12-year-old neutered male mixed-breed dog (dog 2) was evaluated for a 4-month history of ataxia and tetraparesis. CLINICAL FINDINGS Examination via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed spinal cord compression due to disk-associated cervical spo...