The effect of cervical plating on single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

JC Wang, PW McDonough, K Endow… - Clinical Spine …, 1999 - journals.lww.com
The use of anterior plates for single-level cervical fusions is controversial. Previous studies
that evaluated single and multiple-level fusions have shown increased and decreased …

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 …

Outcomes of single-level cervical disc arthroplasty versus anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

RW Tracey, DG Kang, JP Cody, SC Wagner… - Journal of Clinical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Several studies have established the short-term safety and efficacy of cervical disc
arthroplasty (CDA) as compared to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) …

Rate of adjacent segment disease in cervical disc arthroplasty versus single-level fusion: meta-analysis of prospective studies

K Verma, SD Gandhi, M Maltenfort, TJ Albert… - Spine, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Objective. To compare the
reported incidence of adjacent segment disease (ASD) requiring surgical intervention …

Skip-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with self-locking stand-alone PEEK cages for the treatment of 2 noncontiguous levels of cervical spondylosis

HR Wang, XL Li, J Dong, FL Yuan… - Clinical Spine Surgery, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Study Design: Retrospectively study. Objectives: To evaluate clinical and radiologic
outcomes of skip-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with self-locking …

A prospective randomized multicenter clinical evaluation of an anterior cervical fusion cage

RJ Hacker, JC Cauthen, TJ Gilbert, SL Griffith - 2000 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. A prospective, concurrently controlled, randomized, multicenter trial of an
anterior Bagby and Kuslich cervical fusion cage (BAK/C; Sulzer Spine-Tech, Minneapolis …

Results at 24 months from the prospective, randomized, multicenter Investigational Device Exemption trial of ProDisc-C versus anterior cervical discectomy and fusion …

RB Delamarter, D Murrey, ME Janssen, JA Goldstein… - SAS journal, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Cervical total disk replacement (TDR) is intended to address pain and
preserve motion between vertebral bodies in patients with symptomatic cervical disk …

Stand-alone anchored spacer versus anterior plate for multilevel anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion

L Yang, Y Gu, L Liang, R Gao, S Shi, J Shi… - …, 2012 - journals.healio.com
The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical outcomes and radiological changes of
3-and 4-level anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion with stand-alone anchored spacers …

Comparison of anterior cervical fusion after two-level discectomy or single-level corpectomy: sagittal alignment, cervical lordosis, graft collapse, and adjacent-level …

Y Park, T Maeda, W Cho, KD Riew - The Spine Journal, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Single-level corpectomy and two-level discectomy with anterior
cervical plating have been reported to have comparable fusion and complication rates …

Anterior approaches to fusion of the cervical spine: a metaanalysis of fusion rates

JF Fraser, R Härtl - Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2007 - thejns.org
Object Anterior cervical discectomy (ACD), ACD with interbody fusion (ACDF), ACDF with
placement of an anterior plate system (ACDFP), corpectomy, and corpectomy with plate …