Anterior cervical spine surgery is an established surgical intervention for cervical degenerative disease and high success rate with excellent long-term outcomes have been reported. However, indications of surgical procedures for certain conditions are still controversial and severe complications to cause neurological dysfunction or deaths may occur. This review is focused mainly on five widely...

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...

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...

Introduction: From the beginning several surgical techniques have been invented to treat herniated cervical intervertebral disc. Long term results with well-designed studies have not been evaluated. Variation in Surgical Technique: The surgical techniques have varied with several variable factors and different variables used for evaluation. Postoperative interscapular pain following ACD has var...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Surgery is usually required for treatment of cervical myelopathy to decompress the neural elements, restore lordosis, and stabilize the spine. By addressing these problems, the neurological deterioration may be halted. PURPOSE Multilevel cervical discectomy and fusion offers several advantages over other approaches. The authors describe the technique, discuss the indication...

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...

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...

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...

Spring 2007 • Vol. 2 – No. 1 10 ABSTRACT This report describes the author’s experience in an ongoing multi-institutional trial of two alternative therapies for cervical disc disease: conventional anterior cervical discectomy with cortical allograft fusion and plating (ACDF), versus discectomy and replacement with the PrestigeTM ST cervical disc device. Because the artifi cial disc preserves mot...