Cervical spondylosis refers to degenerative changes in the sub-axial cervical spine.Symptoms caused by spondylosis include axial neck pain,cervical radiculopathy,and cervical myelopathy.One of the most commonly used s...Cervical spondylosis refers to degenerative changes in the sub-axial cervical spine.Symptoms caused by spondylosis include axial neck pain,cervical radiculopathy,and cervical myelopathy.One of the most commonly used surgical treatments is anterior cervical discectomy and fusion(ACDF);it is reported that ACDF leads to the development of progressive adjacent segment degeneration(ASD)in over 90%of the patients with up to 25.6%requiring reoperations due to symptomatic ASD.展开更多
基金This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health(1R03AG056897),and the first author was funded by a doctor scholarship(GZSYBS[2017]12)from the Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital,Guiyang,China.
文摘Cervical spondylosis refers to degenerative changes in the sub-axial cervical spine.Symptoms caused by spondylosis include axial neck pain,cervical radiculopathy,and cervical myelopathy.One of the most commonly used surgical treatments is anterior cervical discectomy and fusion(ACDF);it is reported that ACDF leads to the development of progressive adjacent segment degeneration(ASD)in over 90%of the patients with up to 25.6%requiring reoperations due to symptomatic ASD.
