Usefulness of anterior cervical fusion using titanium interbody cage for treatment of cervical degenerative disease with preoperative segmental kyphosis
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Yasuo Mikami; Yuji Arai; Ryota Takatori; Kunihiko Hosoi; Toru Osawa; Hiroyoshi Fujiwara; Masateru Nagae; Hitoshi Tonomura; Toshikazu Kubo
- Source
- Medicine
- Subject
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
titanium cage
Lordosis
medicine.medical_treatment
Kyphosis
Observational Study
spinal fusion/instrumentation
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Degenerative disease
stand alone
medicine
Humans
Cervical fusion
anterior cervical fusion
subsidence
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Titanium
segmental kyphosis
030222 orthopedics
business.industry
Retrospective cohort study
cervical vertebrae/surgery
Prostheses and Implants
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Surgery
Spinal Fusion
medicine.anatomical_structure
Spinal fusion
Cervical Vertebrae
Female
Spinal Diseases
business
Complication
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Research Article
Cervical vertebrae
- Language
- ISSN
- 0025-7974
Favorable bone fusion and clinical results have been reported for anterior cervical fusion (ACF) using titanium interbody cage (TIC). This method might induce postoperative subsidence and local kyphosis, but the relationship between radiological changes and preoperative local alignment is not known. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the impact of preoperative local alignment on the clinical and radiological outcomes of ACF using TIC. The study enrolled 36 patients (mean age 49.8 years) who underwent single-level ACF using TIC for cervical degenerative diseases. Patients were divided into 2 groups by preoperative segmental lordotic angle at the operative level: group L, ≥0° (n = 16); group K