STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study of prospectively collected data. OBJECTIVE To examine the incidence of iatrogenic spinal cord injury following elective cervical spine surgery. METHODS A retrospective multicenter case series study involving 21 high-volume surgical centers from the AOSpine North America Clinical Research Network was conducted. Medical records for 17 625 patients who r...

AIM To evaluate the feasibility of this novel surgical approach for treatment of cervical discitis and vertebral osteomyelitis. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a report of two patients who underwent anterior cervical decompression for discitis and vertebral osteomyelitis (DVO) with cervical spine reconstruction with polymethylmethacrylate impregnated with antibiotics (AI-PMMA). RESULTS Both pa...

This study reports on a 70-year-old man with recurrent cervical myelopathy 20 years after anterior decompression and fusion of C4-7 using a free vascularised strut graft. The recurrent myelopathy was secondary to a kyphotic deformity of a fractured graft and residual ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament with stenosis at C3/4. Intraoperative spinal cord-evoked potentials indicated...

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy and radiculopathy are common disorders which can lead to significant clinical morbidity. Conservative management, such as physical therapy, cervical immobilisation, or anti-inflammatory medications, is the preferred and often only required intervention. Surgical intervention is reserved for those patients who have intractable pain or progressive neurological symp...

This is a retrospective study aimed to analyse the clinical outcomes of patients following anterior cervical decompression and fusion for radiculopathy in worker's compensation, third party and non-compensable group. The outcome of 224 cases operated between 1991 to 1998 were analysed. Only patients with radiculopathy due to a cervical disc protrusion and spondylosis were included. There were 1...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Multilevel cervical myelopathy can be treated with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) or corpectomy via the anterior approach and laminoplasty via the posterior approach. Till date, there is no proven superior approach. PURPOSE To elucidate any potential advantage of one approach over the other with regard to clinical midterm outcomes in this study. STUDY DESI...

background: anterior interbody fusion of the cervical spine have become the gold standard for treating spinal diseases, hence the aim of this study was to compare long term follow up results in patients with cervical disk disease treated with anterior peek cage implantation and without it in anterior approach. methods: retrospectively 63 patients with known cervical discogenic disorders who wen...

Abstarct Although general consensus exists regarding the need for surgery in patients with cervical myelopathy, there remains considerable debate regarding the optimal approach. Common choices include anterior decompression and fusion, or posterior approaches such as laminoplasty, laminectomy, or laminectomy and fusion. Aside from laminectomy alone, which has proven to be less favorable than it...

abstract background: in patients with cervical spondylosis, cord compression and impingement of cord vessels as well as the vertebral artery may be accompanied by vertigo. we evaluated improvement of vertigo in these patients after surgical and medical treatment. methods: in this prospective study we reviewed 16 patients with vertigo suspected of cervical spondylosis, admitted to our hospital b...

BACKGROUND There is limited evidence to guide treatment for pediatric cervical spinal tuberculosis with kyphosis (PCSTK). This study retrospectively evaluates the safety, feasibility and efficacy of 360-degree arthrodesis combined with anterior debridement and decompression for treating PCSTK, while simultaneously emphasizing the role of posterior fixation for the correction and maintenance of ...