Association between severity of the cervical foraminal stenosis and paraspinal muscle parameters in patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrated level- and side-specific correlations between the FI of the multifidus and rotatores muscles and severity of CFS. Given the segmental innervation of the multifidus and rotatores muscles, the authors hypothesize that the observed increased FI could be reflective of changes due to muscle denervation from CFS.PMID:38134419 | DOI:10.3171/2023.10.SPINE23658

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - December 22, 2023 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Thomas Caffard Artine Arzani Bruno Verna Vidushi Tripathi Samuel J Medina Lukas Sch önnagel Erika Chiapparelli Soji Tani Gaston Camino-Willhuber Ali E Guven Krizia Amoroso Jiaqi Zhu Ek Tsoon Tan John A Carrino Hassan Awan Malik Timo Zippelius Jennifer Sh Source Type: research