Study Design. This is a retrospective long-term clinical and roentgenographic review of 50
patients who underwent anterior discectomy and fusion for painful cervical disc disease. The …

Study Design. Data were collected prospectively on 38 patients who underwent anterior
cervical discectomy and fusion for neck pain with no symptoms or signs of radiculopathy or …

Method A standardized procedure was used to evaluate each patient individually and all
patients as a group. The hospital records for each patient were reviewed to determine the …

Study Design. This study retrospectively reviewed the outcomes of 126 patients treated for
cervical radiculopathy with either simple anterior cervical discectomy (ACD) or anterior …

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 …

Anterior cervical discectomy is an effective and reliable treatment for nerve root or cord
compression caused by disc herniation or spondylosis. Although physicians have …

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 …

Summary Between 1976 and 1983, 251 patients underwent surgery for the treatment of
cervical degenerative disc disease. Anterior microsurgical discectomy at one or more …

✓ A prospective randomized study to compare discectomy without (DE) and with fusion
(DEF) included 63 patients operated on for cervical herniated disc. The clinical outcome 3 …

There were 55 patients (soft disc, 21 and spondylosis, 34) who underwent anterior cervical
discectomy without fusion (ACD) using an operating microscope. Discectomy of a single …