Posterior foraminotomy versus anterior decompression and fusion in patients with cervical degenerative disc disease with radiculopathy: up to 5 years of outcome from the national Swedish Spine Register.

CONCLUSIONS: In patients with cervical degenerative disc disease and radiculopathy, both groups demonstrated clinical improvements at the 5-year follow-up that were comparable and did not achieve a clinically important difference from one another, even though the reoperation rate favored the ACDF group. This study design obtains population-based results, which are generalizable. PMID: 31731263 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31731263?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - November 14, 2019 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: MacDowall A, Heary RF, Holy M, Lindhagen L, Olerud C Tags: J Neurosurg Spine Source Type: research