Objectives : To retrospectively study and compare the clinical outcome of the patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy (ACD), anterior cervical discectomy with fusion (ACDF), or anterior cervical discectomy with fusion and instrumentation (ACDFI) for cervical spondylosis. Methods : A retrospective analysis of 80 patients with cervical spondylosis who had undergone anterior cervical disc...

BACKGROUND Conventional anterior cervical discectomy with fusion is thought to require postoperative neck immobilization for the promotion of bony fusion. Rigid internal fixation with anterior cervical plates may decrease graft-related complications and provide immediate stability. This stability may obviate postoperative external immobilization. METHODS This report reviews one surgeon's expe...

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Aims: To Study and Analyze the Clinical presentation, Management, post operative outcome and complications in a series of patients with cervical disc prolapse who underwent anterior cervical discectomy and bone graft fusion with Titanium Recon plating between JANUARY 2013 to DECEMBER 2014 at Government General Hospital Guntur. Objectives 1. to Study and Analyze the Clinical presentation, Manage...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study. PURPOSE To compare the clinical and radiological outcomes of autogenous bone graft and cage with bone substitute for anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE The clinical outcomes of cage with bone substitute for anterior cervical discectomy and fusion is satisfactory. METHODS Eighty four patients who underwent cervical spine surg...

Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF) currently remains as the gold standard treatment for cervical disc herniation and Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) refractory to conservative management. Even though anterior cervical fusion provides excellent clinical results, it has been implicated in abnormal kinematic strain on adjacent disc level resulting in symptomatic adjacent segment diseas...

Injury to the vertebral artery during anterior cervical discectomy is rare but potentially fatal. We report a case of cerebellar infarction after endovascular embolization for iatrogenic vertebral artery injury at C5-C6 during an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. A 61-year-old man had an intraoperative injury of the right vertebral artery that occurred during anterior cervical discectomy...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis. PURPOSE To evaluate the effectiveness of anterior cervical discectomy with fusion for degenerative cervical disc disease. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Anterior spinal surgery originated in the mid-1950s and graft for fusion was also employed. Currently anterior cervical microdiscectomy and fusion with an intervertebral cage is a widely accepted procedure for t...

BACKGROUND Anterior cervical discectomy is a common procedure for treating patients for cervical disc prolapse. This study was conducted to study the surgical outcome and demographic characteristics of patients who were treated for anterior cervical disc prolapse. METHODS Study was conducted in the combined military hospital (CMH) Peshawar. Study interval was 3 years from 1st September, 2011 ...

AIM The authors compared the incidence of radiologically documented and/or symptomatic adjacent segment degeneration in and between patients who underwent anterior or posterior single-level, simple discectomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS 79 patients were clinically and radiologically examined for adjacent segment degeneration (ASD). The results were compared to evaluate which approach was predominan...