Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion associated complications

KN Fountas, EZ Kapsalaki, LG Nikolakakos… - Spine, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… The goal of our current study is to raise awareness on complications associated with anterior
cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and their early detection and proper management. …

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

DH CLEMENTS, PF O'LEARY - Spine, 1990 - journals.lww.com
anterior cervical discectomy and fusion between 1982 and 1987. Of that group, four had had
prior cervical surgery … plain radiographs of the cervical spine and a cervical myelogram with …

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion without instrumentation

IP Wright, SM Eisenstein - Spine, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… In this study, we reviewed a single surgeon’s consecutive series of anterior cervical discectomies
with fusion, but without fixation, to assess the fusion rate and complication rate with the …

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion versus anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion for multilevel cervical spondylosis: a systematic review

SD Jiang, LS Jiang, LY Dai - Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery, 2012 - Springer
… for reconstruction after multilevel anterior decompression for cervical spondylosis. The aim
… of anterior cervical discectomy fusion (ACDF) and anterior cervical corpectomy fusion (ACCF…

Anterior cervical discectomy: is fusion necessary?

GC Dowd, FP Wirth - Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, 1999 - thejns.org
anterior cervical discectomy (ACD) with ACD and fusion (ACDF) for the treatment of cervical
… It was found that whereas the incidence of fusion was greater in the ACDF group compared …

Increased fusion rates with cervical plating for two-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

JC Wang, PW McDonough, KK Endow, RB Delamarter - Spine, 2000 - journals.lww.com
… patients undergoing two-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion procedures. Most of
… ability of anterior plating on two-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion procedures to …

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

GR Buttermann - Spine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with or without decompression is a well-…
It is well known that the levels adjacent to a fusion may become symptomatic and that some …

Increased fusion rates with cervical plating for three-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

JC Wang, PW McDonough, LEA Kanim, KK Endow… - Spine, 2001 - journals.lww.com
… surgically with a three-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion by the senior author.
Forty patients had cervical plates, whereas 19 had fusions with no plates. These patients were …

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a clinical and biomechanical study with eight-year follow-up

EH Simmons, SK Bhalla, WP Butt - The Journal of Bone & Joint …, 1969 - boneandjoint.org.uk
1. A series of 154 patients who underwent anterior cervical discectomy and fusion has been
studied. A detailed analysis of the first eighty-four patients who have been observed for …

Pseudoarthrosis rates in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a meta-analysis

MF Shriver, DJ Lewis, VR Kshettry, BP Rosenbaum… - The Spine Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
… were excluded: anterior cervical discectomy without graft fusion, ACDF without plate fixation,
anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion, arthroplasty, combined anterior-posterior surgeries…