Various techniques have been proposed for the anterior approach to the upper and lower cervical spine. These have included the transoral approach to the atlas and axis, [1,2] the mandible and ...

Study Design: A new method for prevention of cerebrospinal fluid leakage was studied. Objective: To prevent cerebrospinal fluid leakage, we developed a polytetrafluoroethylene fascia patch inlay ...

Joseph Osorio, MD, PhD, neurosurgeon at UC San Diego Health, holds the world’s first fully personalized anterior cervical spine implant, created using advanced imaging, AI-assisted planning, and 3D ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NuVasive announced the launch of its new C360 cervical spine portfolio, which includes the commercial launch of ...

ASYMPTOMATIC hypertrophic spurs of the anterior margin of the cervical vertebras are not uncommon. However, if the mass of hypertrophic bone projects into the pharynx enough to impinge upon the food ...

A cervical foraminotomy is a procedure that decompresses a nerve in the neck. A spine surgeon removes bone or disc pieces that are pressing on the nerves that go from your neck to your arm. The ...

The September issue of Neurosurgical Focus looks at anterior approaches to thoracolumbar spinal surgery. According to the topic editors, Paul Park, Juan Uribe, Tokumi Kanemura, and Dean Chou, "The ...

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Cervical myelopathy and cervical radiculopathy are neurologic conditions. They both originate in the neck and cause a loss of function. Cervical myelopathy is caused by compression of the spinal cord ...

Patient 1. This 38-year-old woman had a partial corpectomy of C2, odontoidectomy, and C1-C2 fusion with anterior instrumentation and autograft for a cervical anomaly, os odontoideum, resulting in ...