Strategies to Achieve Spinal Fusion in Multilevel Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery: An Overview.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anterior cervical fusion offers surgeons a safe and reliable surgical option for single-level and multilevel pathology; however, multilevel fusions pose a higher risk of complications than single-level fusions, including possible pseudoarthrosis, adjacent segment disease, sagittal imbalance, and construct subsidence. Various techniques can be used to mitigate risk in multilevel anterior cervical fusion.

Questions/purposes

We reviewed the literature to determine the best surgical strategies in multilevel anterior cervical fusion.

Methods

We searched the PubMed database for articles published from January 1980 through July 2019. Two authors identified relevant articles and then manually screened them for others to include in this review.

Results

We ini

SUBMITTER: McCarthy MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7253572 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature