Evaluation of Different Modalities of Anterior Cervical Discectomy for Treatment of Single and Double Level Cervical Disc Herniation

Mohammed, Hassan; Khalaf, Mohamed; Farrah, Mohamed

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“…Mohammed et al, reported that the most average operating level was C5 -C6 at in the single-level group, followed by C4 -C5 level in the single-level group, the single level group was approximately 71.5 minutes, while in the double-level group it was 110 minutes and in the hybrid group, it was 105 minutes 21 as in our study, the common level was same, while operating tine was similar around 75 minutes at a single level.…”

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Cervical Spine Discectomy, Osteo-facetectomy by Noble Art of Cloward Procedure and Its Modification- A Single Centre study

Kalhoro¹,

Hashim²,

Saleem³

2020

Pak J Neurol Surg

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Objectives: To analyze the surgical outcome of cervical spine osteo-facetectomy discectomy, and modified Cloward procedure.Materials and Methods: A prospective study was conducted at the Neurospinal & cancer care institute, Karachi. The duration of study was from 1st June 2017 to 25th November 2019. Patients having prolapsed intervertebral cervical discs included in the study, while those with trauma, cervical radiation, previous cervical surgery andmultiple level involvement were excluded. Pre and post-surgical data was collected. Titanium Hashmi cage was used in all operated patients at single level instrumentation.Results: A total of 113 patients satisfied the inclusion criteria and were considered in the study. Among them, 77 patients were male and 36 were female. The age range from 26 to 65 with a base age of 53 years ± 2.5. C5 – C6 was the commonest level for fusion C6 – C7, C3 – C4 and C4 – C5 were less common. For the outcome of theprocedure Odom’s criteria, was followed the results showed excellent improvement in 88 (77.87%), Good results in 18 (15.9%), fair in 5 (4.42%) and 2 patient had Poor (1.76%) results. Fusion was seen in 86 patients, superficial infection in two cases.Conclusion: Patients with single-level degenerative disc and treated with modified titanium Hashmi cage provided a good fusion with the relief of upper limb pain without donor site morbidity at anterior iliac spine.

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