Background: Spinal surgery is increasingly being done in the outpatient setting. We reviewed our experience with inpatient and outpatient single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with ...
The retropharyngeal approach is used to avoid the risks and limitations of transmucosal surgery ... anterior retropharyngeal approach provides additional exposure to the entire cervical spine ...
in which the intervertebral disc is removed and the remaining vertebral bones are fused to create more space in the spinal canal. This procedure is known as an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion ...
Orthopedic spine surgeon Oliver Tannous at Medstar Washington Hospital Center was the first in the country to perform the MySpine cervical 3D printed fusion. “And the beauty of that is that in ...
Surgical options aim to relieve pressure on the spinal cord and provide stability to the neck. Common procedures are posterior cervical laminectomy, discectomy and fusion, or corpectomy.
“The patient had limb paralysis caused by a cervical tumour. Since the surgery ... spinal cord or nerve root. Its incidence increases with age. One of the standard surgical procedures for CDH is ...