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- Title
Indications and techniques for anterior cervical plating.
- Authors
Rhee, John M.; Jong-Beom Park; Jun-Young Yang; Riew, K. Daniel; Park, Jong-Beom; Yang, Jun-Young; Riew, Daniel K
- Abstract
Anterior cervical plating is commonly performed to stabilize anterior cervical fusions. Modern plating options include dynamic plates, with screws that can either toggle within fixed holes or translate within slotted holes. Regardless of the plating system used, paramount to success and avoidance of complications with plated anterior cervical fusions are meticulous plating techniques, exacting graft carpentry, and understanding the biomechanical limitations of plating in certain situations, such as multilevel corpectomies reconstructed with a single-strut graft. In order to prevent graft-related complications associated with long-strut grafts, additional posterior fixation and fusion, or alternative corpectomy constructs, such as multilevel anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, corpectomy-discectomy, and corpectomy-corpectomy, should be considered instead if the pattern of stenosis allows.
- Subjects
SPINAL fusion; SPINAL surgery; SPINAL instability; BONES; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL vertebrae injuries; BONE grafting; CERVICAL vertebrae; ORTHOPEDIC implants; SPINAL injuries
- Publication
Neurology India, 2005, Vol 53, Issue 4, p433
- ISSN
0028-3886
- Publication type
journal article