Posterior cervical spine surgery and fusion involve operating on the back of the neck to treat conditions of the back and neck bones, discs, and nerves, to relieve pressure or alleviate pain.

In this case, if your healthcare provider believes that you would benefit from cervical discectomy and fusion, you might have the surgery with a posterior (back of the neck) approach. The procedure is ...

Surgical options aim to relieve pressure on the spinal cord and provide stability to the neck. Common procedures are posterior cervical laminectomy, discectomy and fusion, or corpectomy.

The surgery can join vertebrae in the lumbar (lower back), thoracic (mid-back) or cervical spine (neck). The OHSU Spine Center is committed to trying the least-invasive options first. Your doctor may ...

Other causes include hardening of the posterior longitudinal ligament or the ligamentum ... This procedure is known as an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). Your surgeon can recommend a ...

According to our study, anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACCF) and anterior cervical discectomy ... 2 The choice between an anterior, posterior or combined approach for decompression is based ...

Recently, Dr. J. Alex Sielatycki, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon at Pioneers Medical Center (PMC) in Meeker, started ...

Owing to progression of distal weakness of both arms, the patient was referred to a neurosurgeon and underwent anterior decompression and fusion ... a cervical MRI in flexion with gadolinium. Typical ...

The patient possessed a small right posterior communicating artery and lacked collateral flow from the left VA. She was treated with a C3‐4 anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and ...