ArticleYonsei medical journal2014
Cervical arthroplasty for moderate to severe disc degeneration: clinical and radiological assessments after a minimum follow-up of 18 months--Pfirrmann grade and cervical arthroplasty.
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- Hypoxia Regulates the Extracellular Matrix via Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases Pathway in Cells Retrieved from the Human Intervertebral Disc.Yonsei medical journal · 2021Article
- How Should We Grade Cervical Disk Degeneration? A Comparison of Two Popular Classification Systems.Spine surgery and related research · 2021Article
- Hydrogen peroxide induces nucleus pulposus cell apoptosis by ATF4/CHOP signaling pathway.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2020Article
- Coblation annuloplasty in cervical discogenic pain without radiculopathy.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2020Article
- Polo like kinase 1 expression in cervical cancer tissues generated from multiple detection methods.PeerJ · 2020Article
- Spontaneous Fusion After Cervical Disc Arthroplasty: A Case Report and Literature Review.Journal of pain research · 2020Article
- Cervical Intervertebral Disc Degeneration and Low Cervical Extension Independently Associated With a History of Stinger Syndrome.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2017Article
- The Mobi-C cervical disc for one-level and two-level cervical disc replacement: a review of the literature.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2014Review
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Abstract
purposeClinical outcomes and radiologic results after cervical arthroplasty have been reported in many articles, yet relatively few studies after cervical arthroplasty have been conducted in severe degenerative cervical disc disease. MATERIALS AND
methodsSixty patients who underwent cervical arthroplasty (Mobi-C®) between April 2006 and November 2011 with a minimum follow-up of 18 months were enrolled in this study. Patients were divided into two groups according to Pfirrmann classification on preoperative cervical MR images: group A (Pfirrmann disc grade III, n=38) and group B (Pfirrmann disc grades IV or V, n=22). Visual analogue scale (VAS) scores of neck and arm pain, modified Oswestry Disability Index (mODI) score, and radiological results including cervical range of motion (ROM) were assessed before and after surgery.
resultsVAS and mean mODI scores decreased after surgery from 5.1 and 57.6 to 2.7 and 31.5 in group A and from 6.1 and 59.9 to 3.7 and 38.4 in group B, respectively. In both groups, VAS and mODI scores significantly improved postoperatively (p<0.001), although no significant intergroup differences were found. Also, cervical dynamic ROM was preserved or gradually improved up to 18 months after cervical arthroplasty in both groups. Global, segmental and adjacent ROM was similar for both groups during follow-up. No cases of device subsidence or extrusion were recorded.
conclusionClinical and radiological results following cervical arthroplasty in patients with severe degenerative cervical disc disease were no different from those in patients with mild degenerative cervical disc disease after 18 months of follow-up.
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