Anterior cervical decompression and fusion accelerates adjacent segment degeneration: comparison with asymptomatic volunteers in a ten-year magnetic resonance imaging follow-up study

• Published in: Spine (Philadelphia, Pa. 1976) Vol. 35; no. 1; p. 36
• Main Authors: Matsumoto, Morio, Okada, Eijiro, Ichihara, Daisuke, Watanabe, Kota, Chiba, Kazuhiro, Toyama, Yoshiaki, Fujiwara, Hirokazu, Momoshima, Suketaka, Nishiwaki, Yuji, Iwanami, Akio, Ikegami, Takeshi, Takahata, Takeshi, Hashimoto, Takeshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2010
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Cervical Vertebrae - pathology; Cervical Vertebrae - surgery; Chi-Square Distribution; Decompression, Surgical - adverse effects; Disease Progression; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - etiology; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - pathology; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Middle Aged; Odds Ratio; Regression Analysis

Prospective 10-year follow-up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of patients who underwent anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) and healthy control subjects. To clarify the incidence of adjacent segment degeneration during 10 years after ACDF. There have been few studies which inves...