BACKGROUND CONTEXT: After multilevel fusions, construct failure because of
pseudoarthrosis and instrumentation complications is a well-recognized clinical problem …

Background: Traditional surgical treatment for symptomatic cervical degenerative disc
disease is anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), yet the increased risk of adjacent …

Background: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) sacrifices segmental mobility,
which can lead to the acceleration of adjacent segment degeneration. The challenge has …

Background To evaluate the influence of the resection of different amounts of the
uncovertebral joints on the stability of the cervical spine by comparing and analyzing the …

Background Studies on the role of uncinate process have been limited to responses of the
intact spine and patient's outcomes, and procedures to perform the excision. The aim of this …

Objective Cervical total disk replacement (TDR) has emerged as a motion-preserving
alternative to anterior cervical diskectomy fusion (ACDF). Biomechanical studies have …

Introduction: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) has been considered as the
gold standard surgical treatment for cervical degenerative pathologies. Some surgeons tend …

Study Design. An in vitro biomechanical investigation of the immediate stability in cervical
reconstruction. Objectives. The purpose of this study was to compare the segmental stability …

Study Design. A retrospective study. Objective. To report the clinical outcomes and sagittal
kinematics after cervical total disc replacement (TDR). To evaluate the in vivo effect of …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the range of motion and stability of the human cadaveric cervical
spine after the implantation of a novel artificial disc and vertebra system by comparing an …