UNLABELLED Surgery on the degenerative cervical spine disorders aims at decompression of the neural structures and restoring the physiological profile of the cervical spine. The aims of internal fixation are to gain primary stability, introduce a bony fusion and to correct the shape of the spine. The present study will give answers to the following questions: 1. What is the overall revision rat...

BACKGROUND Use of autogenous bone grafting taken from anterior iliac crest for anterior cervical interbody fusion has been the "gold-standard" for decades. Substitutes for autogenous bone graft continue to be sought to avoid potential donor site morbidity. A titanium-alloy square-shaped hollow cage was applied to facilitate the process of fusion as a bone graft substitute, then assessed in this...

AIM Supplementing anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (ACDF) with plates enhances stabilization, increases fusion and reduces failure rates. Zero-P implant for stand-alone anterior interbody fusion procedures of the cervical spine was recently developed to avoid complications associated with anterior cervical plates. We evaluate the outcome of its use in our patients undergo...

Up to date the seasoned spine surgeon has many options for the treatment of Cervical Radiculopathy that range from muscle and motion preserving procedures to the well-known Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion and the Anterior Cervical Disk Replacement surgeries. We wish to present a brief review of the literature to address two minimally invasive and motion preserving techniques known as, C...

BackgroundCervical local kyphosis (CLK) is a common degenerative disorder with potentially debilitating and intractable condition. Currently, there still debate on the optimal treatment of kyphotic cervical spondylotic myelopathy (LKCSM) via different anterior approaches.ObjectiveThe objective this study was to evaluate surgical efficacy discectomy fusion (ACDF) vs. corpectomy (ACCF) for LKCSM. ...

Anterior cervical plating is commonly performed to stabilize anterior cervical fusion. The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical and functional outcome, radiological fusion and operative complications in cases of cervical spondylotic myelopathy and radiculopathy who underwent Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF) by autograft and stabilized with plate and screw. We evaluated 16...

BACKGROUND The purposes of the present study are to evaluate the subsidence and nonunion that occurred after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion using a stand-alone intervertebral cage and to analyze the risk factors for the complications. METHODS Thirty-eight patients (47 segments) who underwent anterior cervical fusion using a stand-alone polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cage and an autologo...

1. Yue WM, Brodner W, Highland TR. Long-term results after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with allograft and plating: a 5 to 11-year radiologic and clinical follow-up study. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2005;30:2138–44. 2. Baron EM, Soliman AM, Gaughan JP, Simpson L, Young WF. Dysphagia, hoarseness, and unilateral true vocal fold motion impairment following anterior cervical diskectomy and f...

BACKGROUND In multilevel spinal cord compression caused by cervical spondylosis, surgeons face the choice of performing a posterior route as a laminectomy or laminoplasty, or an anterior route as multiple adjacent interbody decompressions or corpectomies. The anterior cervical operation is not considered by some clinicians because of concerns about complications and the complexity of multilevel...