Objective Cervical spine surgery is a common procedure for treatment of wide variety of
pathologies. In this paper we report approach-related complication rates experienced by our …

BACKGROUND:: Surgical intervention is performed on the cervical spine in a
heterogeneous number of pathologic conditions in a diverse patient population. Several …

Study Design Retrospective review of prospectively gathered data. Objective To report the
rate and impact of perioperative complications in cervical spine surgery. To our knowledge …

Objective Surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) may use anterior or posterior
approaches. Our objective was to compare baseline differences and validated postoperative …

The anterior approach to the cervical spine follows a well-defined fascial plane to the
vertebral bodies and discs and allows for good decompression of the spinal cord and nerve …

The anterior approach to the cervical spine is commonly utilized for a variety of
degenerative, traumatic, neoplastic, and infectious indications. While many potential …

Cervical spine surgery performed for the correct indications yields good results. However,
surgeons need to be mindful of the many possible pitfalls. Complications may occur starting …

Object Cervical spine fusion is performed for various indications in patient populations
ranging from young and healthy to aged and frail. Whereas disease pathoanatomy dictates …

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the preoperative patient characteristics that
affect surgical decision-making when selecting an anterior or posterior operative approach …

Anterior cervical spine procedures have been associated with satisfactory outcomes.
However, the occurrence of troublesome complications, although uncommon, needs to be …