Cervical spine surgery in the ancient and medieval worlds

Cervical spine surgery

Most surgery is designed to relieve compression of the spinal cord or spinal nerve roots. Reduction in the bore of the vertebral spinal or root canals (spinal stenosis) can occur in many conditions, and some patients have congenitally narrow canals. Osteophytic projections at the intervertebral joints (cervical spondylosis) are the commonest problem. Tumours, infection, trauma, disc protrusions...

Osteoporosis in Cervical Spine Surgery.

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective administrative database analysis. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of osteoporosis (OS) on complications and outcomes in patients undergoing cervical spine surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA OS is the most prevalent degenerative human bone disease, and spine surgeons will inevitably perform procedures on patients with OS. These patients might present a difficu...

Anterior Cervical Incision and Thoracotomy for Cervico-thoracic, Thoracic, and Thoracolumbar Spine Surgery: A Clinical Series

Introduction:Surgical treatment of diseases in cervicothoracic, thoracic and thoracolumbar regions can be a challenging issue. Cooperation of the thoracic surgeons and spine surgeons can improve the outcomes and decrease the complications of patients who underwent these approaches.Materials & Methods: The participants of this study consisted of seventeenpatients suffering from different types o...

Images in spine surgery: rheumatoid arthritis in cervical spine.

Motion Preservation technologies in cervical Spine Surgery

A cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) has been a surgical option for the management of cervical disc disorders since 1958 (16). Over time, longterm outcome studies increasingly focused on adverse effects, specifically on the vertebrae and the intervertebral discs adjacent to the level fused (2,8,10). The concern that spinal fusion may potentially contribute to the acceleration of adjacent seg...