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ArticleJournal of craniovertebral junction & spine

Preliminary results of anterior cervical arthroplasty by porous alumina ceramic cage for cervical disc herniation surgery.

Keyvan Mostofi, Babak Gharaei Moghaddam, Morad Peyravi, Reza Karimi Khouzani

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Article in Journal of craniovertebral junction & spine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Speed and quality of interbody fusion in porous bioceramic AlJournal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2023
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Keyvan MostofiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Center Clinical, Chirurgie de Rachis, Soyaux, France.
Babak Gharaei MoghaddamDepartment of Neursurgery, Neurosurgical Clinic of Dr. Gharaei, Tehran, Iran.
Morad PeyraviDepartment of Neurosurgery, Werner Forssmann Hospital, Academic Hospital of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Rudolf-Breitscheid, Eberswalde, Germany.
Reza Karimi KhouzaniDepartment of Orthopedics, Rottal-Inn-Kliniken GmbH, Eggenfelden, Bayern, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveAnterior cervical arthroplasty (ACA) is the gold standard surgery in severe or unresponsive cases of cervical disc herniation, uncarthrosis, and foraminal stenosis. The aim of this study is to establish the impact and outcome evaluations of managing the patients operated for cervical arthroplasty by the intersomatic porous alumina ceramic cervical cages (PACC). The authors describe their experience in the area to allow the comparison of effectiveness of ceramic cages versus other interbody fusion cages. MATERIALS AND

methodsBetween April 2015 and September 2018, we operated 118 for ACA by using PACC. Among them, 52 were female and 66 were male, with an average age of 46.78 years.

resultsThe mean symptoms duration was 14.1 months. The most frequent level of the disorder was C5-C6 followed by C6-C7 level. Mean follow-up was 3.3 years. The Neck Disability Index (NDI) and the visual analog scale (VAS) were used to evaluate the patients status. No significant differences were observed between our results and literature data regarding operative time, duration of hospitalization, and NDI; however, we observed a shorter period and higher rate of bony fusion.

conclusionThe results from the present study corroborate that implementing of PACC is a good alternative treatment for the patient operated by ACA for cervical disc herniation or foraminal cervical stenosis.

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Cervical arthroplastycervical spinal cordcervical spondylosiscervical vertebraedegenerative spine diseaseherniated cervical discuncarthrosis

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PMCPMC6364365

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