The trend towards ambulatory surgery for procedures previously ... [12,13,14,15,16] Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with plating (ACDF+P) is one of the most common spinal and neurosurgical ...

Surgery is indicated in cases of cervical myelopathy. In cases of symptomatic cervical radiculopathy ... and with or without instrumentation (an intervertebral prosthesis or use of plates or screws).

An important and limiting complication of cervical spine fusion surgery is the development of DDD in adjacent discs. [5–7] Artificial intervertebral disc arthroplasty has been proposed as an ...

“The patient had limb paralysis caused by a cervical tumour. Since the surgery, we restored a range ... of upper limb pain and paralysis, cervical disc herniation (CDH) is a degenerative ...

Scott Blumenthal, MD, will mark 25 years since he performed the first lumbar total disc replacement in the U.S.

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 ...