Anterior Bone Loss in Cervical Disc Arthroplasty.

Conclusions: ABL is common (57.1%). It occurs at an early stage (within 3 months) and typically follows a non-progressive natural history with stable radiographic features after the first year. Most ABL cases are mild, but severe ABL occurs in approximately 3% of CDAs. ABL does not affect the patients' clinical outcome or the requirement for revision surgery. Surgeons should thus treat patients undergoing CDA considering ABL. PMID: 30326692 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Asian Spine Journal - October 18, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research