Anterior cervical plating.

Indications and techniques for anterior cervical plating.

Anterior cervical plating is commonly performed to stabilize anterior cervical fusions. Modern plating options include dynamic plates, with screws that can either toggle within fixed holes or translate within slotted holes. Regardless of the plating system used, paramount to success and avoidance of complications with plated anterior cervical fusions are meticulous plating techniques, exacting ...

Fusion rate of anterior cervical plating after corpectomy.

PURPOSE To evaluate the neurological recovery and fusion rate of patients with myelopathy who were treated with anterior corpectomy and anterior cervical plating. METHODS The results of 17 cervical myelopathy patients who underwent decompression and anterior cervical plating were retrospectively reviewed at a mean follow-up of 2 years. RESULTS By Kurokawa score, 82.4% of patients showed exc...

Multilevel Corpectomy With Anterior Column Reconstruction and Plating for Subaxial Cervical Osteomyelitis.

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective case series. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate patients with cervical spine osteomyelitis who underwent multilevel (≥2) subaxial corpectomies and anterior column reconstruction and plating. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Neglected multilevel subaxial cervical osteomyelitis is a potentially dangerous disease. As it is rare, early radiographic and clinic...

Plating for Anterior Cervical Fusion

Cervical Disc Prolapse – Clinical Presentation, Management, Post Operative Outcome and Complications

Aims: To Study and Analyze the Clinical presentation, Management, post operative outcome and complications in a series of patients with cervical disc prolapse who underwent anterior cervical discectomy and bone graft fusion with Titanium Recon plating between JANUARY 2013 to DECEMBER 2014 at Government General Hospital Guntur. Objectives 1. to Study and Analyze the Clinical presentation, Manage...