Thoracic radiculopathy is a rare entity. Symptomatic adjacent-segment disease after anterior cervical fusion occurs commonly in the lower cervical spine segment. We describe the clinical presentation and treatment of T2 radiculopathy after C5-6 anterior fusion. A 60-year-old man presented with the right axillary pain for 3 months. He had undergone C5-6 anterior fusion for cervical spondylosis 5...

Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion is a common spinal procedure. Over time, complications and hospital stay have decreased. However, to the authors' knowledge, no study has examined the necessity of routine postoperative hematologic laboratory studies for patients undergoing this procedure.From January 2005 through July 2010, four hundred thirty-four consecutive patients with cervical radi...

BACKGROUND After surgery for degenerative spinal disease by the anterior approach, the degree of soft tissue swelling can be assessed simply using plain radiographs. However, there are little studies according to the surgical methods or extent of surgery, and no study had addressed the clinical meaning of swelling determined by plain radiography. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cl...

The surgical treatment of cervical kyphotic deformity remains challenging. As a surgical method that is safer and avoids major complications, the authors present a procedure of single-stage anterior and posterior fusion to correct cervical kyphosis using anterior interbody fusion cages without plating, as illustrated by three consecutive cases. Case 1 was a 78-year-old woman who presented with ...

The study included a group of anterior cervical microdiscectomy without fusion performed at one level (either C5-C6 level or at the C6-C7 level) and a second group of patients with same single-level of anterior cervical discectomy with fusion. The kinematic analysis included the range of motion, anteroposterior translation and disc height assessed for the cervical functional spinal units at the...

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...

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...

Between January 1996 and December 2005, a total of 1241 patients underwent anterior cervical decompression and fusion for cervical degenerative diseases in the authors' institution. Sixty-three (5.1%) patients underwent revision anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion for adjacent segment disease between October 2003 and August 2010. This series included 35 men and 28 women with a mean±SD age o...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of C5 nerve root palsy after multi-segmental cervical decompression through different approaches. METHODS This study was conducted among 375 patients undergoing multi-segmental cervical decompression in anterior corpectomy and fusion fixation, anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion fixation + posterior decompression and fusion fixation, posterior cervic...