Incidence and severity of postoperative dysphagia after short-segment anterior cervical fusion, corpectomy, or arthroplasty.
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...