Camilo A Molina,Ziya L Gokaslan,Daniel M Sciubba
Camilo A Molina
The bony spine is overall the third most common site for distant cancer metastasis, with the cervical spine involved in approximately 8 to 20% of metastatic spine disease cases. Diagnosis and management of metastatic spine disease requires ...
Esophageal and vertebral artery injuries during complex cervical spine surgery--avoidance and management [0.03%]
复杂颈椎手术中的食管和椎动脉损伤的预防和处理
Gregory Grabowski,Chris A Cornett,James D Kang
Gregory Grabowski
Vertebral artery and esophageal injuries are rare but feared complications of cervical spine surgery. Appropriate understanding of treatment algorithms for prompt intervention in the event of a vertebral artery injury minimizes the risk of ...
Christopher K Kepler,Alan S Hilibrand
Christopher K Kepler
Adjacent segment disease (ASD) was described after long-term follow-up of patients treated with cervical fusion. The term describes new-onset radiculopathy or myelopathy referable to a motion segment adjacent to previous arthrodesis and oft...
Krzysztof B Siemionow,Sergey Neckrysh
Krzysztof B Siemionow
Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a slowly progressive disease resulting from age-related degenerative changes in the spine that can lead to spinal cord dysfunction and significant functional disability. The degenerative changes and ...
Posterior surgery for cervical myelopathy: indications, techniques, and outcomes [0.03%]
颈椎脊髓病后路手术的指征、技巧和效果
Brandon D Lawrence,Darrel S Brodke
Brandon D Lawrence
This article details the controversies associated with the different treatment strategies in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy. The natural history, incidence, pathophysiology, physical examination, and imaging findings are disc...
Subaxial cervical and cervicothoracic fixation techniques--indications, techniques, and outcomes [0.03%]
下颈椎和 cervicothoracic 固定技术-指征、技术和结果
Miguel A Pelton,Joseph Schwartz,Kern Singh
Miguel A Pelton
The subaxial and cervicothoracic junction is a relatively difficult area for spine surgeons to navigate. Because of different transitional stressors at the junction of the smaller cervical vertebrae and the larger thoracic segments, proximi...
Mark E Jacobson,Safdar N Khan,Howard S An
Mark E Jacobson
The atlantoaxial motion segment, which is responsible for half of the rotational motion in the cervical spine, is a complex junction of the first (C1) and second (C2) cervical vertebrae. Destabilization of this joint is multifactorial and c...
Occipitocervical fusion [0.03%]
occipito颈椎融合术
Ben J Garrido,Rick C Sasso
Ben J Garrido
The evolution of occipitocervical fixation and new rigid universal screw-rod construct technology has allowed secure anchorage at each level of the occipitocervical junction with the elimination of rigid external orthoses. Rigid occipitocer...
Dino Samartzis,Kenneth M C Cheung
Dino Samartzis
Emerging technologies for molecular therapy for intervertebral disk degeneration [0.03%]
椎间盘退变分子治疗的新兴技术
Won C Bae,Koichi Masuda
Won C Bae
Intervertebral disks are biologically regulated by the maintenance of a balance between the anabolic and catabolic activities of disk cells. Therapeutic agents, initially evaluated using in vitro studies on disk cells and explants, have bee...