Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion is a surgical procedure performed to remove a herniated or degenerative disc in the cervical spine. While this procedure has been present in hospitals for some ...

New Orleans, Louisiana — Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) was shown to be not only effective and durable at 5 years of follow-up but also cost-effective, registration trials of ...

Patients who underwent anterior cervical discectomy and fusion had an average time to new diagnosis of 479 days vs. 878 days for the nonoperative group, according to Dowling.

CHICAGO – The optimal choice for anterior cervical grafts in anterior discectomy and fusion is an ongoing debate among spine surgeons. Autograft, allograft and bone graft substitutes with rhBMP ...

CHICAGO, Illinois — Patients who underwent cervical disc arthroplasty had improved clinical outcomes and segmental vertebral motion at 5 years, according to new research. In addition, neck ...

In a study published in Spine, researchers compared patient outcomes for those undergoing single-level total disc replacement in the cervical spine versus those undergoing single-level anterior ...

Discectomy with cervical fusion can often help relieve the pain of spinal disc disease. The only caveat is that after the surgery, many people find that they lose some degree of movement in their ...

Endoscopy-assisted anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with internal fixation vs conventional surgery in the treatment of cervical disc herniation. Haicun Zhang 1 *, Yanbo Lin 1 *, Canglu Wu 1, ...