The incidence of cervical spondylosis in the elderly is increasing with the higher proportion of elderly individuals among the Japanese population. The present study retrospectively analyzed the clinical and radiological features of this clinical entity in 107 patients with cervical spondylosis aged 70 years or older surgically treated between 1995 and 2005. The patients were divided into Group...

BACKGROUND To investigate the efficacy of adding supplemental fusion or arthroplasty after cervical anterior discectomy for symptomatic mono-level cervical degenerative disease (radiculopathy), which has not been substantiated in controlled trials until now. METHODS A randomized controlled trial is reported with 9 years follow up comparing anterior cervical anterior discectomy without fusion,...

Study Design Retrospective cross-sectional study of spinal procedures from 2002 to 2010 using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. Objective To determine the patterns of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) usage in fusion surgery before and after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 2008 advisory for the anterior cervical spine to understand how advisories affect U.S. physician practic...

This study is to investigate the effect of anterior cervical discectomy with internal fixation and fusion at different levels on adjacent segments in rabbits. Sixty New Zealand rabbits were randomly divided into four groups, one control group and three model groups, with 15 in each group. Each group underwent anterior cervical internal fixation and fusion at C3-4, C4-5, and C5-6 levels respecti...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of anterior cervical decompression, fusion and titanium plate fixation in sub axial cervical spine injuries in respect of neurological outcome, postoperative stability and early rehabilitation. The Descriptive case series study was conducted at Department of Neurosurgery, Liaquat University Hospital, Jamshoro, Sindh Pakistan during year 2005 to 2007. METHODS...