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ASIAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY
Volume 46, Issue 9, Pages 3760-3765Publisher
ELSEVIER SINGAPORE PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.asjsur.2023.02.032
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Cervical discectomy; Fusion; Subsidence; Cage
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This study compared the outcomes of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with cage alone and with plate fixation in multilevel discectomy. The results showed that plate fixation surgery had a longer duration without significant benefits, while the stand-alone cage approach could be a preferable treatment option.
Purpose: Multilevel anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), especially two-level ACDF, has been usually performed in the cervical degenerative disease, and the incidence rate of complications is controversial. This study aimed to compare the outcomes of ACDF approach with cage alone and with plate fixation in multilevel discectomy.Methods: Patients who had undergone multilevel ACDF by the Smith-Robinson methods were included from 2018 to 2020. Data were collected using a questionnaire containing demographic characteristics, surgical complications, and outcome. All the patients were followed for 18 months post-surgery. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Neck Disability Index (NDI) and Nurick Grading scale were used to measure the pain degree, neck pain effect, and myelopathy grade, respectively. Bone fusion rate, subsidence and instrument failure were checked through radiography. Data were analyzed using SPSS, and the significant level was considered 0.05. Results: 24 patients were included. There was no significant difference between the mean blood losses in the two groups. The rate of subsidence was much higher in group B after 18 months (60% vs 14.3%). As to the VAS score, NDI, and Nurick scale, trend change overtime was significantly improved in each group, but there was no significant difference between the groups. There was no significant difference between the two groups regarding bony fusion rate.Discussion: ACDF with plate leads to a more prolonged surgery with no significant benefits. Stand-alone cage approach could be suggested as the gold standard for anterior cervical discectomy.& COPY; 2023 Asian Surgical Association and Taiwan Robotic Surgery Association. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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