Cement Augmentation of the Cervical Spine - a Technique Enhancing Stability of Anterior Cervical Plating.

CONCLUSIONS This technique of cement augmentation is a useful adjunct in those few patients where a secondary posterior surgery would be high-risk due to the general health of the patient, or when life expectancy is limited. We have shown that anterior alone reconstruction of the cervical spine with cement augmentation of screws did provide sufficient and sufficiently long stability of the cervical spine which prevented catastrophic collapse and quadriplegia in patients in poor general condition. Key words: cement augmentation, cervical spine, corpectomy, tumor, stabilization, fusion. PMID: 29351528 [PubMed - in process]

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Source: Acta Chirurgiae Orthopaedicae et Traumatologiae Cechoslovaca - January 20, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Acta Chir Orthop Traumatol Cech Source Type: research