Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion outcomes over 10 years: a prospective study

GR Buttermann - Spine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Prospective cohort study with> 10-year follow-up. Objective. To assess the
long-term,> 10-year clinical outcomes of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and …

Long-term outcome after anterior cervical discectomy without fusion

RDS Nandoe Tewarie, RHMA Bartels, WC Peul - European Spine Journal, 2007 - Springer
To retrospectively study the long-term outcome of patients after anterior cervical discectomy
without fusion (ACD) compared to results published on the long-term outcome after ACD …

Predictors of outcome after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a multivariate analysis

PA Anderson, BR Subach, KD Riew - Spine, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Retrospective cohort study. Objective. Perform a multivariate analysis to
identify important predictors of poor outcome following anterior cervical discectomy and …

Anterior cervical discectomy (ACD) versus anterior cervical fusion (ACF), clinical and radiological outcome study

N Abd-Alrahman, AS Dokmak, A Abou-Madawi - Acta neurochirurgica, 1999 - Springer
This study was conducted on 90 patients with symptomatic cervical disc disease with one or
two-level disc pathology. Clinical and radiological outcome was compared to determine …

In Fusion Necessary After Anterior Cervical Discectomy?

P Klara - Spine, 1996 - journals.lww.com
Anterior cervical discectomy is an effective and reliable treatment for nerve root or cord
compression caused by disc herniation or spondylosis. Although physicians have …

Anterior cervical discectomy with fusion in patients with cervical disc degeneration: a prospective outcome study of 258 patients (181 fused with autologous bone graft …

B Lied, PA Roenning, J Sundseth, E Helseth - BMC surgery, 2010 - Springer
Background Anterior cervical discectomy with fusion (ACDF) is challenging with respect to
both patient selection and choice of surgical procedure. The aim of this study was to …

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion versus cervical disc arthroplasty: current state and trends in treatment for cervical disc pathology

SO Nesterenko, LH Riley III, RL Skolasky - Spine, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Epidemiologic study using national administrative data. Objective. To
compare anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with cervical disc arthroplasty …

Anterior cervical discectomy: is fusion necessary?

GC Dowd, FP Wirth - Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, 1999 - thejns.org
Object. A prospective, randomized trial was performed to compare the efficacy of anterior
cervical discectomy (ACD) with ACD and fusion (ACDF) for the treatment of cervical …

[HTML][HTML] Current concepts of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a review of literature

KJ Song, BY Choi - Asian spine journal, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a safe and effective procedure for
degenerative cervical spinal disease unresponsive to conservative management and its …

Comparison of clinical and radiographic outcome in instrumented anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with or without direct uncovertebral joint decompression

FH Shen, D Samartzis, N Khanna, EJ Goldberg, HS An - The Spine Journal, 2004 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is an
established procedure for the operative treatment of cervical disc disease in patients with …