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01-05-2020 | EXPERT’S COMMENT

Expert’s comment concerning Grand Rounds case entitled “Vertebral body fracture after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with zero-profile anchored cages in adjacent levels: a cautionary tale” by Mattei TA, Teles AR, Dinh DH (Eur Spine J [2016] doi:10.1007/s00586-015-4358-39)

Author: Wen Yuan

Published in: European Spine Journal | Issue 5/2020

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The authors present a rare hardware-related complication with zero-profile anchored cages in a 52-year-old male patient who had received a two-level ACDF surgery [1]. They report the first case of a vertebral body fracture between the blades of zero-profile anchored cages after ACDFs in adjacent levels. They also performed a comprehensive systematic literature review regarding safety, complications as well as radiological and clinical outcomes of zero-profile anchored cages. …

Mattei TA, Teles AR, Dinh DH (2016) Vertebral body fracture after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with zero-profile anchored cages in adjacent levels: a cautionary tale. Eur Spine J. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-015-4358-3 CrossRefPubMed

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Chen Y, Chen H, Wu X, Wang X, Lin W, Yuan W (2016) Comparative analysis of clinical outcomes between zero-profile implant and cages with plate fixation in treating multilevel cervical spondilotic myelopathy: a three-year follow-up. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 144:72–76CrossRefPubMed

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Title: Expert’s comment concerning Grand Rounds case entitled “Vertebral body fracture after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with zero-profile anchored cages in adjacent levels: a cautionary tale” by Mattei TA, Teles AR, Dinh DH (Eur Spine J [2016] doi:10.1007/s00586-015-4358-39)
Author: Wen Yuan
Publication date: 01-05-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Spine Journal / Issue 5/2020
Print ISSN: 0940-6719
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0932
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-020-06297-8

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