Anterior cervical spine surgery

John F. Bebawy; Antoun Koht; Srdjan Mirkovic

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-0308-1_28

Anterior cervical spine surgery

John F. Bebawy^*, Antoun Koht, Srdjan Mirkovic

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Abstract

An anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a routinely performed surgery whose purpose is to relieve spinal stenosis, remove intervertebral disc and bony matter which may be impinging upon neural elements, and also to mechanically stabilize the cervical spine after such material is removed. Herniated intervertebral disc material or osteophytes in the spinal canal or intervertebral foramina may cause compression of the spinal cord or nerve roots, respectively. Such compression may lead to radiculopathy, myelopathy, or both, and can present with significant symptoms such as pain, numbness, paresthesias, weakness, or paralysis.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Monitoring the Nervous System for Anesthesiologists and Other Health Care Professionals
Publisher	Springer US
Pages	539-554
Number of pages	16
Volume	9781461403081
ISBN (Electronic)	9781461403081
ISBN (Print)	1461403073, 9781461403074
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0308-1_28
State	Published - Nov 1 2012

Keywords

Anterior
Anterior cervical spine surgery
Cervical
Diminished baseline MEP
Diminished baseline SSEP
Somatosensory evoked potentials
Spine
Spontaneous electromyography
Surgery
Transcranial motor evoked potentials

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General Medicine

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