Open AccessAnterior cervical discectomy and fusion for noncontiguous cervical spondylotic myelopathy
Author(s) -
Qian Sun,
LI Pei-jia,
Lei Sun,
Junsheng Chen,
Jianmin Li
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5413.185603
Subject(s) - medicine , anterior cervical discectomy and fusion , orthopedic surgery , surgery , radiography , magnetic resonance imaging , myelopathy , cervical spine , lordosis , cervical spondylosis , spinal fusion , radiology , spinal cord , alternative medicine , pathology , psychiatry
Noncontiguous cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a special degenerative disease because of the intermediate normal level or levels between supra and infraabnormal levels. Some controversy exists over the optimal procedure for two noncontiguous levels of CSM. The study was to evaluate the outcomes of the anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with zero-profile devices for two noncontiguous levels of CSM.