Is cervical disc arthroplasty good for congenital cervical stenosis?

CONCLUSIONS Hybrid-CDA yielded similar clinical improvement to 3-level ACDF in patients with myelopathy caused by CCS. In this relatively young group of patients, hybrid-CDA demonstrated significantly more ROM than 3-level ACDF without adjacent-segment disease (ASD) at 2 years' follow-up. Therefore, hybrid-CDA appears to be an acceptable option in the management of CCS. The strategy of motion preservation yielded similar improvements of cervical myelopathy to motion elimination (i.e., ACDF) in patients with CCS, while the theoretical benefit of reducing ASD required further validation.
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Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - March 9, 2017 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Chang PY, Chang HK, Wu JC, Huang WC, Fay LY, Tu TH, Wu CL, Cheng H Tags: J Neurosurg Spine Source Type: research