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Atlas of Craniocervical Junction and Cervical Spine Surgery pp 217–227Cite as

Complications of Cervical Spine Surgery

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The surgical approach to the cervical spine requires, in addition to a good surgical experience, a thorough anatomical knowledge of the cervical region and skull base. Indeed this region is crossed by many vascular, nervous, respiratory and digestive structures. Surgical techniques have been widely described in the previous chapters. We now focus our attention on the main complications related to this kind of surgery.

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  1. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata, University Hospital of Verona, Modena, Italy

    Gabriele Molteni MD, PhD, FEBORL-HNS

  2. Head and Neck Surgery Department, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy

    Marco Giuseppe Greco MD & Pierre Guarino MD

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Correspondence to Gabriele Molteni MD, PhD, FEBORL-HNS .

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    Stefano Boriani

  2. Modena, Italy

    Livio Presutti

  3. Bologna, Italy

    Alessandro Gasbarrini

  4. University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy

    Francesco Mattioli

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Molteni, G., Greco, M.G., Guarino, P. (2017). Complications of Cervical Spine Surgery. In: Boriani, S., Presutti, L., Gasbarrini, A., Mattioli, F. (eds) Atlas of Craniocervical Junction and Cervical Spine Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42737-9_13

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