Management of Postoperative Infections: Inflow and Outflow Drains, Antibiotic Beads, and Vacuum-assisted Closure Steven C. Ludwig Joseph K. Lee Significant advancements have been made in spinal instrumentation for the treatment…
Intraoperative Vertebral Artery Injury—Pack Off, Tie, Repair, or Embolize Alex Gitelman Rahul Basho Jeffrey C. Wang Iatrogenic vertebral artery injury in cervical spine surgery is a rare, but potentially life-threatening,…
Persistent Dysphagia: Remove Plate versus Wait Kern Singh Justin Munns Daniel K. Park Persistent dysphagia following cervical spine surgery represents a common yet challenging complication. Dysphagia is defined as difficulty…
Postoperative C5 Root Palsy: Immediate Decompression versus Waiting Thomas E. Mroz Michael P. Steinmetz Perhaps one of the more frustrating complications of either ventral or dorsal subaxial surgery involving the…
Esophageal Perforation: Immediate versus Delayed Repair Rahul Basho Alex Gitelman Jeffrey C. Wang In the United States, more than 500,000 anterior cervical discectomy and fusions were performed from 1990 to…
Postoperative Infection Andrew J. Schoenfeld Steven R. Garfin Christopher M. Bono In spite of an increased understanding regarding the use of perioperative antibiotics and advances in surgical techniques, postoperative infection…
Ophthalmologic Complications Related to Cervical Spine Surgery Geoffrey Kaung Usha R. Pinninti Robert A. Hart Ophthalmologic complications are rare but potentially devastating complications of cervical spine surgery. The reported incidence…
Complications of Total Disk Replacement Matthew N. Scott-Young Patients and payers are increasingly asking for objective and reliable outcome data. In this era of health care cost containment, they are…
BMPs in Cervical Spine Surgery Vikas V. Patel Sergiu Botolin Hyun Bae The true era of bone regenerative science began over 40 years ago with Dr. Marshall Urist’s experiments that…
Adjacent Segment Disease Krzysztof B. Siemionow Frank M. Phillips Cervical spinal procedures, such as anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, generally yield excellent results in patients suffering from the effects of…
