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Anterior Cervical Approach: Decompression and Fusion with Cages

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Cervical Spine

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Abstract

Intervertebral disc degeneration and cervical spondylosis are the primum movens of the processes that subsequently lead to cervical spondylodiscoarthosis causing biochemical and morphological modifications of cervical spine. Degenerative changes in the cervical spine, resulting in neck pain and/or cervical myelopathy and radiculopathy are commonly observed conditions in neurosurgical practice.

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Abbreviations

ACCF:

Anterior Cervical Corpectomy Fusion

ACDF:

Anterior Cervical Discectomy Fusion

ASD:

Adjacent Segment Degeneration

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  1. Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Viale del Policlinico 155, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Alessandro Landi MD, PhD & Roberto Delfini MD, PhD

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  1. Spine Center, Rome American Hospital, Rome, Italy

    Pier Paolo Maria Menchetti

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Landi, A., Delfini, R. (2016). Anterior Cervical Approach: Decompression and Fusion with Cages. In: Menchetti, P. (eds) Cervical Spine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21608-9_8

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