OBJECTIVE
Postoperative dysphagia occurs frequently after anterior cervical surgery. In this study, dysphagia incidence and duration were assessed in a multicenter cohort of patients who had undergone short-segment anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACCF), or cervic...
D. Wallace, M. Pernik, E. Bisson et al.· Journal of Neurosurgery : Sp...· 0 citations
OBJECTIVE
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is a reasonable treatment option for lumbar spondylolisthesis, but its long-term cost-effectiveness is not well established. Herein, the authors describe the 5-year cost-effectiveness of posterior MIS using prospective data from the multicenter Quality Outcomes Database (QOD)....
Farhan A. Khan, Peter J. Chabot, Dean Chou et al.· Journal of Neurosurgery : Sp...· 0 citations
OBJECTIVE
Revision surgery is a known risk factor for postoperative dysphagia. This study aimed to assess the association of revision surgeries indicated to treat adjacent segment disease (ASD) with pre- and postoperative dysphagia rates.
METHODS
A prospectively collected quality registry for anterior cervical spine...
Kathleen M. Hannon, Nicholas P. Tippins, Aidan C Rezner et al.· Journal of Neurosurgery : Sp...· 0 citations