Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion associated complications

KN Fountas, EZ Kapsalaki, LG Nikolakakos… - Spine, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… The reported complication rates of previous clinical series … , clinically symptomatic RLN palsy
in our series was 3.1% (32 of … In their ACDF series, they found that postoperative RLN palsy …

Favourable long-term clinical outcome after anterior cervical discectomy. A study on a series of 125 patients undergoing surgery a mean of 11 years earlier

L Palma, A Mariottini, B Carangelo, VF Muzii… - Acta Neurochirurgica, 2010 - Springer
… The main argument against anterior cervical discectomy (ACD… deformity with adverse long-term
clinical effects. In this context, … , we reviewed the clinical outcome of our series of patients …

Comparison of inpatient vs. outpatient anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a retrospective case series

JT Liu, RP Briner, JA Friedman - BMC surgery, 2009 - Springer
medical comorbidities between the two groups is shown in Table 1 (see additional file 1:
Table 1). The most common medicalsurgery due to increased number or severity of medical

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 series is one of the ongoing attempts to come to an end of the debate of fusion or
non-fusion in patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy. In the majority of reported series in …

Outpatient anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for cervical disk disease: a prospective consecutive series of 96 patients

B Lied, PA Rønning, CM Halvorsen… - Acta neurologica …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… To evaluate surgical complications and clinical outcome in a consecutive series of 96 patients
undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) for cervical disk degeneration (…

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

EH Simmons, SK Bhalla, WP Butt - … of Bone & Joint Surgery …, 1969 - boneandjoint.org.uk
… 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 …

A meta-analysis comparing the results of cervical disc arthroplasty with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) for the treatment of symptomatic cervical disc …

Y Gao, M Liu, T Li, F Huang, T Tang, Z Xiang - JBJS, 2013 - journals.lww.com
anterior cervical discectomy and fusion have shown unclear benefits in terms of clinical results,
neck … Trials without a randomized controlled design and case series (studies with a Level …

Cervical discectomy: a prospective analysis of three operative techniques

FP Wirth, GC Dowd, HF Sanders, C Wirth - Surgical neurology, 2000 - Elsevier
… Surgeons have used case series to argue for the superiority of a … anterior cervical discectomy
alone with discectomy and a fusion procedure. All of these studies found similar clinical

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
Cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) has been espoused as a safe, segmental motion-sparing
alternative to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) in the treatment of cervical

[HTML][HTML] Anterior cervical disc arthroplasty (ACDA) versus anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF): a systematic review and meta-analysis

MM Maharaj, RJ Mobbs, J Hogan, DF Zhao… - … of Spine Surgery, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… on the clinical and biomechanical factors comparing ACDF with anterior cervical disc … , our
data, although not statistically significant, does show a trend towards a relative increase in the …