Open AccessOccurrence, Risk Factors, and Time Trends for Late Reoperations due to Degenerative Cervical Spine Disease: A Finnish National Register Study of 19 377 Patients Operated on Between 1999 and 2015
Author(s) -
Anna Kotkansalo,
Ville Lein,
Merja Korajoki,
Katariina Korhonen,
Jaakko Rinne,
Antti Malmivaara
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neurosurgery/neurosurgery online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1081-1281
pISSN - 0148-396X
DOI - 10.1093/neuros/nyaa464
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , stenosis , decompression , risk factor , degenerative disc disease , cervical spine , lumbar
Surgery for degenerative cervical spine disease has escalated since the 1990s. Fusion has become the mainstay of surgery despite concerns regarding adjacent segment degeneration. The patient-specific trends in reoperations have not been studied previously.